Happy Chanter (“we”, “us”, “our”) operates the https://happychanter.com website (the “Site”), which provides the “Service”.
This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information of visitors and users of our Service, the Happy Chanter website.
If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of Personal Information as described in this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
Continued use of this Site also assumes that you agree to and accept our Terms and Conditions, which can be accessed here: https://happychanter.com/index.php/terms-conditions/
Information Collection and Use
To provide you with a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, email address, and website address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you. We will never sell, barter, or rent your email address to any unauthorized third party.
Protecting your data is important to us. We are compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation “GDPR”.
“Data” or “Personal Information” refers to any information we have that can be used to personally identify you.
Log Data
Whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data that are commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Our website uses these “cookies” to collect information and to improve our Service. By using our Service, you agree to our use of cookies and other forms of tracking to optimise the service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent to your computer. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Comments, Contact Forms, Subscriptions
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form (including Name, Email Address, Website, Comment), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised 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.
When visitors submit Contact Forms on the site we collect the data shown in the contact form (including Name, Email Address, Website, Comment), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
The contact form is also protected from spam submissions by reCAPTCHA, and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
When visitors opt in to subscribe to our email subscription list, your data will be stored securely by our email marketing client. You can opt out at anytime by unsubscribing from our emails.
Your Data may be used to contact you via email when we send newsletters, updates, reminders and other types of promotional marketing. You provide specific consent for this when you subscribe to our Service or submit Personal Information on the Site.
Data Retention and Your Rights Over Your Data
Your Data is retained indefinitely, in order to improve your experience when using the Service. Your Data will be stored for the length of your subscription or until you request us to delete it.
You, the user, remain the “controller” of your Data. 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 by contacting us at any time via the contact page. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
- To facilitate our Service;
- To provide the Service on our behalf;
- To reduce spam;
- To perform Service-related services; or
- To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Information, in order for them to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
Analytics
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Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page. By continuing to use the Service after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.