Privacy Notice
Issue no: 1
Issue date: May 18 2018
1. Introduction
Making of Mom provides pregnancy, birth, baby, and family-related content to interested people for entertainment purposes. The privacy and security of our audience and clients are very important, and we’re committed to protecting the data you share with us. This privacy notice explains how Making of Mom processes information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify an individual (“personal data”) collected through the use of our website.
Any information stored by Making of Mom is treated as confidential. All information is secured and accessed only by authorised personnel, with appropriate security measures in place to protect against breach or loss.
2. Collection and use
2.1 Email & personal details
If you are a visitor to our website, you will be offered various downloads or offers. Should you choose to access a part of Making of Mom that is not freely available, eg. a download offer or paid product, you will be asked to provide your email address and agree to receive ongoing (relevant) communications. If you do not grant the requested consent, accessing the special offers may not be possible.
Depending on which offer you are accessing, your data will be processed in one or more of the following ways:
- Added to Making of Mom email marketing list on ConvertKit, who themselves adhere to privacy laws with strong security. When you open or click links in our emails, your action will be automatically noted so that Making of Mom can serve you better. View their privacy notice here.
- Processed as a payment through Sendowl, our ecommerce and paid product delivery solution, who themselves adhere to privacy laws with strong security. Review their policies here.
- Payment securely processed by Paypal, who themselves adhere to privacy laws with strong security. Review their security here
At no time are credit card details processed by Making of Mom itself, nor are they stored on Making of Mom’s host server.
2.2 Cookies
Cookies are temporary, small pieces of information sent to a visitor’s hard disk. They can’t run programs or deliver viruses, nor can they track your behaviour in alarming ways. The Facebook Pixel, Pinterest Tag and Google Analytics are cookies used by Making of Mom, exclusively for the purpose of tracking which pages on Making of Mom website you’ve visited and for how long. Rather than record that Mr A.User visited and did x, y, z, they function more to record that a visitor from country or IP address (eg Australia or 10. 52. 9. 54) landed on this page, clicked this page next, and stayed for 5 minutes. These type of cookies are used by Making of Mom to ensure we deliver content our visitors enjoy and find useful, as well as to create effective marketing campaigns.
If you are on Facebook, Pinterest or Instagram, they may result in you being shown our ads.
Although most browsers are initially set to accept cookies, you may reset your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to reject cookies generally. Most browsers offer instructions on how to do so in the “Help” section of the toolbar.
2.3 Advertisements
We use third party advertisements on Making of Mom to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geo-targeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in your browser. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
2.3 Links to other sites
Please be aware that when we link to other sites outside Making of Mom, they are outside our sphere of influence. We cannot be held responsible for their content, nor their privacy notices.
2.4 Right to review & update
If you wish to inquire about your personal data held by Making of Mom, please email hi@makingofmom.com.
3. Retention & deletion
3.1 Automated unsubscribe
At the bottom of every email sent by Making of Mom, you will see an ‘unsubscribe’ link. This instantly stops all automated communications to you from Making of Mom.
3.2 Right to be forgotten
You have the right to request ALL your data is stripped of personal identifiers. As a general subscriber, this means you’d be deleted from the list. If you’ve bought a product, your private data will be replaced with generic, non-identifying numbers (such as ‘buyer 24’)
4. Information from children
We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Our offerings are generally not designed for or directed to children, and are only for use by individuals who are 18 years and older. On our Website, we do not collect personal data from any person we actually know is under the age of 18. In the online space particularly, parents or guardians are urged to participate in their children’s exploration of the Internet and to teach their children about protecting their personal information while online.
5. Acceptance of these conditions
We have the right to assume all visitors have carefully read this notice, particularly when they are explicitly agreeing to its terms. If someone does not agree with this policy, they should refrain from using our website or offers. We have the right to update our privacy notice as necessary, and this will be reflected with versioning details as per the top of this notice.
6. Sharing of personal information
At no time other than disclosed in 2.1 above (for required processing) will we share your data. This includes selling or renting it to 3rd parties.
7. Our legal obligation to disclose personal information
We will reveal a visitor’s personal information without their permission only when we are required to by law.
8. Further information or action
If you have questions regarding Making of Mom’s privacy notice, then please contact us at hi@makingofmom.com.
Terms & Conditions
This site gives you an opportunity to browse and purchase products & services offered by Catherine Oneissy.
These terms and conditions govern your use of this site, as well as Catherine Oneissy’s products & services, and form a binding contractual agreement between you and us.
If you have any questions before purchasing a product or engaging Catherine’s services, please contact us at hi@makingofmom.com.
All products are intended for people aged 18 and over.
General disclaimer
All Catherine Oneissy’s products are intended for general education and information purposes only. Nothing on the site or in products/services provided should be interpreted as legal, medical, tax or other professional advice.
Any testimonials are not to be taken as a guarantee that you will get the same results. There are many factors influencing your success.
You acknowledge and agree that Catherine Oneissy and its representatives are not responsible for decisions you make, or losses that may arise.
Affiliate links
At times, affiliate links are included throughout Making of Mom and/or products. Such links will be disclosed in each individual piece.
Making of Mom is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
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