This privacy policy ("Policy") explains how www.instanttumbleweed.com in United States ("Company", "we" and "our") procedures, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this site (the "Site"). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and the way we will process data.
We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal data. As used in this Policy," personal data" is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, as an instance, your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to provide you with access to the Site. If you registered with us, you'd have been asked to tick to agree to offer this information in order to access our services, purchase our products, or see our content. This approval provides us with the legal foundation we need under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you don't agree to our use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please don't use our Site.
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Our Site includes interfaces that permit you to get in touch with social networking sites (each a"SNS"). If you connect to an SNS via our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us according to your settings on that SNS. We will access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You may revoke our access to the information that you supply in this manner at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.
We automatically log information about you and your personal computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For instance, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and version, browser type, browser language, display resolution, the website you visited before navigating to our Site, pages you've viewed, how long you spent on a webpage, access times and data regarding your use of and activities on our Site. We collect this information about you using cookies.
We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making. However, we may do so in order to satisfy obligations imposed by law, in which case we will notify you of any such processing and offer you a chance to object.
We may collect information using "cookies."Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your internet browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more interactive and personal experience on the Site.
We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first-party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third-party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and may be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other sites.
Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:
| Type of cookie | Purpose |
Essential Cookies |
These cookies are crucial to provide you with services accessible through our Site and to enable you to use some of its attributes. For instance, they let you log into secure areas of the Site and assist the content of the pages you request load fast. Without these cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be provided, and we just use these cookies to provide you with those services. |
Functionality Cookies |
These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, like remembering your language preferences, remembering your login information and remembering the modifications you make to other parts of our Site that you may customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and also to avoid you having to reevaluate your tastes every time you visit our Site. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies |
These cookies are used to collect information regarding visitors to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our Site, the sites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, if they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on the Site. We use Matomo for this function. Matomo uses its own cookies. It's only used to improve how our Site works. You can discover more about how Matomo protects your information here: https://matomo.org/privacy/. |
Targeted and advertising cookies |
These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history to group you with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and together with our consent, third-party advertisers can set cookies to allow them to show adverts which we believe will be relevant to your interests while you're on third party sites. You can disable cookies which remember your surfing habits and target advertising at you by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you decide to eliminate targeted or advertising cookies, you will still see adverts, but they might not be applicable to you. Even in case you do choose to remove cookies by the firms listed in the above link, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertisements are included in this list, and so you may still get some cookies and tailored ads from companies which are not listed. |
Social Media Cookies |
These cookies are used when you share information using a social networking sharing button or"like" button on the Site or you link your accounts or engage with our articles on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social networking will record that you have done this. |
You may typically reject or remove cookies via your browser settings. In order to do so, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the"settings,""help""tools" or"edit" facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your preferences.
If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience on your use of our Site. For instance, we might be unable to recognize your computer or mobile device, and you might want to log in each time you visit our Site.
We may use other companies to serve third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of ads clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These firms typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies' use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.
We may use your personal data as follows:
We may share your personal data as follows:
You may share personal data with us when you submit user-generated articles to our Site, including via our benefits program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Site. Please be aware that any information you disclose or post on our Site will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and the general public. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information will not be confidential or confidential once it's published on our Site.
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on the Site, provided we do not associate such feedback with your personal data. For those who have provided your consent to do so, we may post your first and last name along with your feedback on our Site. We'll collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.
Your information, including personal data that we gather from you, could be moved to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you live, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same degree of security as in other areas of the world. By accepting this Policy, you consent to this move, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to make certain that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We attempt to use reasonable organizational, administrative and technical measures to safeguard personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and the transmission of information via the world wide web is not completely secure. For those who have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for instance, if you believe that the safety of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
We will only retain your personal data as long reasonably required that you use the Site until you close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law (for example for regulatory purposes).
Our Site is/are not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We'll delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. On your request, please make clear: (I) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) that of the above rights you'd like to enforce. For your protection, we might only implement requests concerning the personal data related to the specific email address which you use to send us your request, and we may have to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will attempt to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we might have to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began before requesting such alteration or deletion.
We are dedicated to resolving any complaints regarding our collection or use of your personal data. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal data, please contact us through the information listed on our website. We'll reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to solve any complaint brought to our attention, however, if you feel that your complaint has not been satisfactorily resolved, you reserve the right to contact the local data protection supervisory authority.
We welcome your comments or questions concerning this Policy. You may contact us in writing or through our website.