Privacy Policy for Adventurous Little Minds
Introduction
At Adventurous Little Minds, we take the privacy of our visitors very seriously, especially the privacy of children. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we may collect when you visit our website (https://adventurouslittleminds.com/) and how we use that information.
Information We Collect
Personal Information
In some cases, we may collect personal information from parents or guardians, such as name, email address, and billing address. This information is only collected when necessary to process an order, respond to inquiries, or send newsletters (with consent). We will never share this information with third parties for marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may be required to disclose this information in response to legal requirements or court orders.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about your visit to our website. This information may include your browsing activity, device information (browser type, operating system), and general demographic information (not linked to individuals). We use this information to improve user experience, personalize content recommendations, and analyze website traffic. We may use tools like Google Analytics for this purpose.
How We Use Your Information
Personal Information
We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which it was collected, such as processing your orders, sending newsletters (with your consent), or providing customer support.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We use non-personally identifiable information to understand how users interact with our website. This helps us improve the overall user experience, personalize content recommendations, and deliver targeted advertising (through third-party platforms, if applicable).
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We may use cookies, which are small data files stored on your device, to remember user preferences, track website usage, and improve website functionality. You can choose to disable cookies in your browser settings. However, this may affect your ability to use certain features of our website.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Third-Party Links and Services
Our website may contain links to external resources or use third-party services (e.g., payment gateways). These entities may have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review before interacting with those services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services.
Children’s Privacy
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children without verifiable parental consent (in accordance with COPPA if applicable in your region). If you believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it from our records.
Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect user information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. This includes using secure servers, encryption, and access controls. However, no website can guarantee complete data security.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law.
Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as the right to access, correct, or delete your information. You can contact us to inquire about your rights.
If you have an account on 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.
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.
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.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes to this Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and encourage you to review the Privacy Policy periodically.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@adventurouslittleminds.com.