Privacy Policy for What Is Green Living
We are glad to welcome you to this informative blog site. We at What Is Green Living respect and value the privacy of our visitors. Your personal information is protected and safe with us.
This Privacy Policy highlights the types of data we collect and how we use it. Please, feel free to ask any question and if you need further clarification about the Privacy Policy, kindly get in touch with us.
This Privacy Policy applies to our online activities and pertains to the information shared and obtained by visitors to our website, Whatisgreenliving.com.
Please be reminded that this Privacy Policy does not extend to any data collected offline or through other channels.
Consent
By accessing and using our website, you are giving your free consent to abide by our Privacy Policy, as well as agreeing to its terms.
Information Collection
We value transparency and are open about the personal information we collect and our reasons for doing so. When we request your personal information, there is a clear explanation of why it’s needed.
We may receive more personal information about you if you initiate direct contact with us. Additional information that we may request includes your name, phone number, email address, attachments you send to us, the content of your message, and any other details you feel to share.
How Your Information Is Utilized
At What Is Green Living, we employ the information we collect for a variety of purposes such as;
- Facilitating the operation and upkeep of our site.
- Gaining insight into and analysing user’s utilization of our site.
- Customizing, enhancing, and extending the functionality of our site.
- Sending emails to you
- Swift response to identify and mitigate instances of fraud.
- Engaging with our users, either directly or via our affiliates- for purposes like customer support, provision of website-related updates and other pertinent information and for marketing and promotional activities.
Our Use of Cookies
Whatisgreenliving.com uses cookies.
A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file downloaded to your device when you visit some websites. Generally, cookies may have text that can be read by the web server that delivers the cookies to you. The text in the cookie is made up of a sequence of letters and numbers that identify your device.
Please note that when you agree to use our cookies, you are giving us and the third party we partner with free access to place and store some or all the cookies described below on your device.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These are important cookies that serve the purpose of proper functioning of the website like logging in, displaying content, validating your session, responding to your request for services, etc.
If these cookies are disabled, you may experience some challenges trying to access features on our website.
Performance Cookies
These cookies generally collect information about the use of the website. It collects information like pages visited, traffic sources, content management, etc.
Functional Cookies
These cookies help the website to remember a user’s choice, like language, user name, and other personal choices.
Media Cookies
These cookies are able to improve a website’s performance and provide special content as well as features.
Advertising or Targeting Cookies
These cookies are normally placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of a user’s browsing interest and serve advertisements on other sites that are related to that user’s interest.
Other reasons why we may use cookies include;
- Identifying the area of our site that a user has visited.
- Remembering user’s preferences, login details, and settings.
- Allowing users to post comments or to share content with social networks.
- Our website analytics
- Targeting advertising and serving important ads to a user’s interest.
Log Files
Whatisgreenliving.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log users when they access websites.
Some information is collected by the log files and they include Internet Service Provider (ISP), internet protocol (IP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages and maybe number of clicks.
Please note that these are not linked to any identifiable information. Hosting companies do this and the purpose of the information is to analyse trends, track user’s movement on the sites, gather demographic information, and administer the website.
Web Beacons
Our website may use web beacons to collect general information on how users access and use our website.
With the information collected by web beacons, we can statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Web beacons are also useful in helping us understand the behaviour of our visitors and members.
Google Ads and Content Network Privacy Notice
Third-party vendors and even Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s past visits to our website.
Google uses the DoubleClick cookie and it enables Google and its partners to serve ads to our users.
Users may decide not to use the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ For European users visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu
Privacy Policies of Advertising Partners
In order to access the Privacy Policy for each of WhatIsGreenLiving’s advertising partners, kindly refer to the following list.
Please note that third-party ad servers or ad networks employ technologies like cookies and JavaScript or Web Beacons in their advertising link displayed on our website.
These technologies are transmitted to a user’s browser and automatically collect their IP address.
Please note that What Is Green Living does not have the capability to access or control the cookies employed by third-party advertisers.
Third-Party Privacy Policies
Our Privacy Policies do not extend to other advertisers or websites.
We strongly recommend that users consult the individual Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more information, as such policies may explain more about the practices and instructions of this third-party ad server on how to opt out of some options.
Disabling cookies can be done through the settings in your web browser.
Our Advertising Partners
Please note that some advertisers on our website may use cookies and web beacons.
Our advertising partners are listed below and each of them has their Privacy Policy for its policies for user data.
Check out their Privacy Policies via the link below:
Google https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We at What Is Green Living are committed to providing you with accurate information about your data protection rights. Our users are entitled to these;
- The right to rectification- Users can request that we correct any information they believe is inaccurate. They can also request the completion of any information that is incomplete.
- The right to access- Our users have the right to request copies of their personal data. However, a small fee may be required for this service.
- The right to object to processing- Our users have the right to object to the processing of their personal data under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability- Our users are also entitled to request for the transfer of the data we collected to be sent to another organization or to them under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing- Users can request for the restriction of processing of their personal data under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict erasure- Users can also request the erasure of their personal data under certain conditions.
Children’s Information
Our aim is to protect children under the age of 13 from surfing the internet for information. We strongly encourage parents or guardians to supervise their children or wards while they search for information online.
What Is Green Living will not collect any personal information from kids under the age of 13. If you suspect that your child or ward has filled in their information on our website, kindly contact us immediately.
Our team is dedicated to removing any information like that from our records.