Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

Information you give us

• Contacting us. If you email us, we receive your name, email address, and whatever you include in your message.
• Newsletter. If you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your email address and, if you provide it, your name.
• Comments. If you leave a comment, we collect the name, email address, and website (optional) you enter, the comment itself, and your IP address and browser user-agent string to help detect spam.
• Submissions. If you send us story tips, photos, letters to the editor, or other material, we collect that material and your contact details.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the Site, we and our service providers automatically collect certain information, including:

• IP address and approximate location (city/region level)
• Browser type, device type, and operating system
• Pages viewed, time spent on pages, and links clicked
• Referring website and the date and time of your visit

We collect this information using server logs, cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small text files stored on your browser. We use them for the following purposes:

• Essential cookies keep the Site working. For example, WordPress uses them to remember your details when you leave a comment and to keep administrators logged in.
• Performance and analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the Site so we can improve it.
• Advertising cookies are used by us and our advertising partners to show ads and measure how they perform, as described below.

You can set your browser to refuse or delete cookies. Some parts of the Site may not work properly if you do.

Advertising

We use Google AdSense to display advertising on the Site. Ad revenue helps us keep publishing the neighborhood stories you read here.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Third parties may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons or IP addresses, to collect information as a result of ad serving on this Site.

To learn more, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and How Google uses cookies in advertising.

Your advertising choices

• You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• You can opt out of personalized advertising from many third-party vendors at www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
• Visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK, and Switzerland can also visit Your Online Choices.

Third-party ad vendors on this Site:

• Google AdSense — policies.google.com/privacy

If we add other advertising networks, we will list them here with links to their websites and opt-out pages.

Opting out does not stop you from seeing ads. It means the ads you see will be less tailored to your interests.

Advertisements on the Site do not mean that RowHome endorses the advertiser or its products or services.

How We Use Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Publish, operate, and improve the Site and the magazine
• Respond to your messages, submissions, and advertising inquiries
• Send newsletters and updates you’ve asked for (you can unsubscribe at any time)
• Display advertising, including personalized advertising where permitted
• Understand readership and measure how content and ads perform
• Protect the Site from spam, fraud, and security threats
• Comply with legal obligations

How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information for money. We share information only as follows:

• Service providers that help us run the Site, such as our web host (Hostinger), our security provider (Wordfence, which processes IP addresses to block malicious traffic), and our email/newsletter provider. They may use your information only to provide services to us.
• Advertising partners, such as Google, as described in the Advertising section above.
• Comment avatars. An anonymized string created from your email address (a “hash”) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have a profile picture. Gravatar’s privacy policy is at automattic.com/privacy.
• Legal reasons. We may share information if required by law, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of RowHome, our readers, or others.
• Business transfers. If RowHome is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Under some U.S. state privacy laws, using advertising cookies for personalized ads may count as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. See “Your Privacy Rights” below for how to opt out.

Your Privacy Rights

All visitors can:

• Control cookies through their browser settings
• Opt out of personalized ads using the links in the Advertising section
• Unsubscribe from our emails using the link in any newsletter
• Ask us to delete a comment they posted

U.S. state residents. Depending on where you live (for example, California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, and other states with consumer privacy laws), you may have the right to:

• Know what personal information we have collected about you, and get a copy of it
• Correct inaccurate personal information
• Delete your personal information
• Opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information, or its use for targeted advertising
• Not be discriminated against for exercising these rights

To make a request, email us at rowhomejordan@gmail.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.” We may need to verify your identity before responding. You may use an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.

Visitors in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland. We process your personal data based on your consent (for example, for advertising cookies), our legitimate interests (for example, running and securing the Site), and our legal obligations. You have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to our processing of your data, and to data portability. You may withdraw consent at any time through the cookie/consent message shown on the Site. You may also lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Data Retention

We keep personal information only as long as we need it:

• Comments and their related data are kept until the comment is removed.
• Newsletter data is kept until you unsubscribe.
• Messages are kept as long as needed to respond and for our reasonable business records.
• Server and security logs are kept for a limited period and then deleted.

Children’s Privacy

The Site is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

We use reasonable safeguards, including a web application firewall, encrypted (HTTPS) connections, and access controls, to protect the information we collect. No website is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information sent to us online.

Links to Other Websites

The Site contains links to other websites, including those of advertisers and businesses we feature. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. Please review their privacy policies.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top of this page. Significant changes will be noted on the Site.

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