Privacy Policy

Last updated 3/11/25

Who we are

Our website address is: https://simplelifeonhawthorn.com. We understand that online privacy is important to users of our site, especially when conducting business. This statement governs our privacy policies and terms of use concerning those users of the Site (“Visitors”) who visit without transacting business and Visitors who register to transact business on the Site and make use of the various services offered by Simple Life on Hawthorn (collectively, “Services”) (“Authorized Customers”). My name is Paula and I operate the Simple Life on Hawthorn website. You can contact me at admin@simplelifeonhawthorn.com.

Disclaimer

All content written on this website is the express property of Simple Lie on Hawthorn. All content is written in good faith and for general information purposes only. We do not make any guarantees or warranties about the completeness or accuracy of our information. Any actions you take due to our work are at your own risk, and we will not be held liable for any losses or damages.

Throughout our website, there will be hyperlinks to other sites. We do our best to provide quality links to ethical websites and companies. However, we are not able to control the contents of other websites. A website’s content may change before we can remove a bad link.

We also have no control over other websites’ privacy policies and practices and encourage you to review their Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions before engaging in any business or using their services.

Consent

By using our website, you consent to our disclaimer and agree to its terms.

Personally Identifiable Information

Refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information collected anonymously (without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.

We may collect basic user profile information from all of our Visitors. We may collect the following additional information from our Visitors: the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of Visitors.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to access or store information.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. To learn how to control that information and request deletion, visit the Privacy Policy of the original website.

Data sent to Advertisers

This Site may be affiliated with different companies for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and they will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

The data collected may be shared with service providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in the delivery of our products and services including, but not limited to:

application development,
site hosting,
maintenance,
data analysis,
infrastructure provision,
IT services,
customer service,
email delivery services,
payment processing,
marketing,
analytics, and
enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;
Other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through the Services;
Persons or entities with whom you consent to have your Personal Data shared;
Third parties in order to prevent damage to our property (tangible and intangible), for safety reasons, or to collect amounts owed to us;
Merchants and payment processors;
Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We do this to:

comply with legal process;
respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
enforce our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;
protect our operations;
protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others;
allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party.

Data collected for Analytics – Google Analytics

We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect is anonymized and sent to Google Analytics. Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website.

Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie from your browser settings tab.

In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.

Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Analytics data is retained indefinitely.

Contact forms are held for one year.

For all other services, we will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

What rights you have over your data

Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or https://www.youronlinechoices.com.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Users under 13 years of age: Our Services are not directed to and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Data, we will take steps to remove such data. If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact the Privacy Officer. By using the Services, you are representing to us that you are not under the age of 13.

Protection of Personal Data

We use reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the Personal Data and risks involved in processing that information.

Links

Our website contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites, as their privacy policies may differ from ours.