Privacy policy

Your privacy is important.  This notice has been made available through a link on the homepage of this website to make this information easy to find.  The purpose of this notice is to explain the online information practices of this website, The Mum Project, and to explain the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Who We Are

The Mum Project is committed to protecting your privacy online. This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect through this website and how we collect and use that information.  Our website address is https://www.themumproject.ie. https://www.mumproject.ie.

 

The Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

For this website, “personal information” is defined as information that you voluntarily provide to us which personally identifies you and/or your contact information, such as your name, phone number and email address.

The Mum Project is a blog publishing articles for visitors to read, and a service where users can purchase products through affiliate links.

Use of themumproject.ie, including all materials presented herein and all online services provided by this website is subject to the following Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to all site visitors, customers, and all other users of the site. 

Information collected by this site includes: 

Your name, and email address

This information is requested when you leave a comment on this site.  It is used to communicate with you should you win a prize in a giveaway.  If you choose to subscribe to email updates for blog posts your email will be shared with our e-commerce software providers to ensure delivery of your email. We use your email to communicate with you and to manage our customer relationship with you. You can unsubscribe from the The Mum Project mailing list at any time using the unsubscribe link in each email through the contact form here.

Blog Interaction

We only collect the personal information you voluntarily provide to us which may include:

  • Your email address in order to subscribe to our mailing list;

  • Your name, email address and/or social media profile in order to post a comment on our blog;

  • Your full name, email address and message in order to contact us via our contact form.

  • Your name and mailing address for mailing of prizes in giveaways.  Your mailing address will be shared with a third party vendor who may sponsor a prize in a giveaway.  Your permission to share your address with this third party will be requested via email before sharing it.

Activity

We may record information relating to your use of the Site, such as

  • the searches you undertake,

  • the pages you view,

  • your browser type,

  • IP (internet protocol) address,

  • ISP (internet service provider)

  • requested URL,

  • referring URL,

  • timestamp information. including date and time of access.

The purpose of gathering this information is to help administer the site, analyze trends and preferences, track users movement within the pages of this site, and gather broad demographic information for internal use.

We use this type of information to administer the Site and provide the highest possible level of service to you and enhance your experience when visiting the site. We also use aggregate information to statistically analyze user preferences, demographics, behavior and characteristics.  This assists us in measuring and analyzing users’ interest in and use of different sections and offerings within the Site. 

Cookies

We may send cookies to your computer in order to uniquely identify your browser and improve the quality of our service. The term “cookies” refers to small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing the Site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using your web browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Site may not work properly or at all.

 

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.

If you use a Gravatar image, an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see.

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.

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.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Please be aware that when you use our Site to post comments and share information in the text of your comment, the information you provide will not be secure and will be publicly visible on the site.  This information can be collected and used by others. As a result, you should exercise caution before you make such disclosures.

This site uses Akismet anti-spam services.  Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on this site. The information collected includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

 

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.

 

Contact Forms

If you submit your personal data including name and email address through a contact form on this site, the information will be securely stored indefinitely after communication between us has ceased, unless you request your information be deleted. This is done for customer service purposes and the information is never shared without express written permission.

 

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Amazon

Amazon, a third party affiliate marketing network, uses cookies to provide a commission when you buy a product after clicking on a link or ad banner that takes you to the site of one of their merchants. You can read Amazon’s Privacy Policy.

 

Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool used to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. You can read Google Analytics Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

 

Social Sharing Buttons Found on this Website

We may use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy.

We may embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends of our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy.

We may use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with Twitter’s data privacy policy.

We may use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their Google’s data privacy policy.

We may use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy.

We may use a Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy.

We may use a Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy.

We may use a StumbleUpon Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. Log Data is a form of Non-Identifying Information, in accordance with their privacy policy.

 

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.

 

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have subscribed for email updates from 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.

 

Third Party Website Links

The Mum Project is not responsible for the practices of advertisers or blog commenters or third party websites.  Links on this site are for your use and reference. The Mum Project is not responsible for the policies of other websites you may access through links from this site. You should be aware that the policies of these third party sites may differ from our own. 

Advertising Partners

The Mum Project is not responsible for the actions of advertisers or sponsors on this site. Should a reader purchase a product or service based upon a link from this blog, all further issues must be resolved by the reader with that company and not The Mum Project.

The Mum Project allows third-­‐party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit this website or mobile application.  These companies may use non-­‐personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you.

These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit: http://www.networkadvertising.org/.

 

Changes to this privacy statement

The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at the discretion of The Mum Project.  You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Site and this Policy periodically and to be aware of any modifications. Updates to this Policy will be posted on this page.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding this privacy policy using the contact form here or by email at hello@themumproject.ie 

This policy was last updated on December 20th, 2019.