Paper Trails to Happy values its reader’s privacy. Please be guided by this website’s policy with Effective Date: July 1, 2020.

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.

Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. This site use cookies for Authentication – to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, Security – as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect the website and Analytics – to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

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.

E-mails

This blog may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it. This may occur, for example, if you send me an e-mail. Your email address will only be used for the purposes for which you provided it. Your email address will never be shared with any third parties.

Changes in Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy will be updated from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on Paper Trails To Happy, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy. By using this website after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of this site, please contact us at hello@papertrailstohappy.com.