Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 28, 2024

Our website address is: https://hercollegelife.com

Her College Life (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates and controls the Her College Life website/blog (the “Service”)

This privacy policy aims to inform you of our policies and procedures concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information when using our Service/Website (Her College Life – https://hercollegelife.com)

We won’t use or share personal information except as our Privacy Policy describes.

We use Personal Information to support, provide, and improve our Service and to meet the needs of our audience. if you choose to use our Service, you agree to the terms set forth by our Privacy Policy including our collection and use of information.

Terms used in our Privacy Policy are in accordance with the terms used in our Terms and Conditions Notice.

Collection and Use of Information

When you use our Service, we may collect personally identifiable information such as contact information and email addresses when you provide it via contact forms, comment forms, or email subscribe forms. Personal Identifiers or Personal Information can include (but isn’t limited to) your “name” and “email address, and “contact or authentication data”

Additionally, when visitors leave comments on our 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.

Log Data

We collect browser information including your IP address (“Internet Protocol Address”), browser type, browser version, pages on our website/Service that you visit, time spent on those pages, along with the time and date of your visit to our website or Service. This is for the purpose of providing analytics in order to target our Service’s information, grow our reach, and meet our audience preferences/interests.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information such as your IP address, geographic location, language preference, and date and time of your visit.

We may use cookies for optimizing and personalizing your user/browsing experience, checking analytics, serving ads, affiliate marketing, and posting comments on 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.

We use “cookies” to collect information and analytics. You have the option to refuse/decline cookies or indicate when cookies are sent. If you don’t accept cookies, some aspects of our Service may be restricted or you may not be able to view/use all aspect of our website.

Web Beacons and Pixels

Third parties may also use web beacons to monitor and track your user activity of our Service/website. These are clear GIFS, web bugs, or pixel tags which collect general information (not personally identifiable information). Third parties such as ad networks we work with may use this information to tailor your user experience.

We may use social media pixels to track and collect general information regarding the use of our Service in compliance with various social media sites such as Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, etc.). The reason for this is to help promote products, track conversion rates, and running targeted advertisements when using our website.

Third party social media sites may use their own web beacons and pixels or cookies to collect user information from our website for advertising purposes.

Service Providers

We may give access or employ third party companies (e.g. affiliate networks we are apart of and our hosting service, email service providers) and individuals to help facilitate our Service and assist in analyzing our Service stats and how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your personal information only for the purpose of helping to provide our Service on our behalf and help meet our audience’s preferences. They are obligated not to disclose or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. affiliate links, videos, images, linked articles, etc.). When you click on a third-party link and leave the website you are not bound by our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions anymore. Note that the embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website, therefore it is important to inform yourself of their unique Privacy Policies and Terms and Conditions.

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.

We advise you to review the privacy policy for these third party sites you may be redirected to or click on via our site/Service. We are not liable or to be held responsible for the content, collection of personal information, or Privacy Policies set forth by these third parties or services. Please contact them directly for a concern regarding the collection, disclosure, and use of your personal information.

Security and Disclosure of Information

While we do our best to protect your Personal Information provided to us, no internet activity or electronic storage method is completely secure. In order to keep our website as secure as possible we use available spam protection provided by our hosting service. However, we cannot guarantee it is 100% secure.

In general, we do not disclose personal information to third parties without consent expect for:

1. Disclosure of information to our trusted hosting provider, email marketing service provider, affiliates, and other service providers for the purpose of tailoring and operating our website to optimize user experience and assist with providing products we offer or promote.
2. Disclosure to comply with state or federal rules, laws, or regulations such copyright infringement or various other legal claims concerning our website/Service.

By using our Service/website you agree to not hold us liable for any security breach or leak by third parties. We also can’t be held liable for any disclosure of information through using our website without our knowledge or consent.

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. Other data and personally identifiable information is only held as long as it continues to help us meet our audiences needs, provide relevant analytics, and/or help cater our Service.

GDPR Visitor Rights

Under GDPR visitor rights, if you reside within the European Union you are entitled to certain rights/information provided below. We will keep user information on file that you provide us unless:

1. You request us to delete the information via our contact form or by contacting support@hercollegelife.com.
2. We choose to discontinue using existing data providers, we cease to be in business, or discontinue offering our services.
3. We no longer need your data to provide you services, too costly to retain, or it is outdated and not useful in providing you services, targeted advertisements, or promotional content.

You can request access to the data we store and access your personal data we have at any time. You can choose and have the right to rectify or have us erase stored personal data. You may also choose to and have the right to verify personal data, correct, or have us remove it completely. You can also have the right to portability of your personal data, meaning you can request to receive it and transfer it.

You can choose to restrict or object processing of your personal data. When you restrict your data processing, we can store it but can’t process it any further. You can also object processing personal data for instances including but not limited to direct marketing or promotional purposes, profiling, statistics.

Additionally, if you consented to the collection of personal data, you may withdraw this at any time.

You may file a complaint with a supervising authority/lawful body that is responsible for overseeing issues relating to the GDPR.

California Residents Privacy Rights

California residents may request or obtain information regarding personal data disclosed to third parties once a year and free of charge. Please contact us via support@hercollegelife.com or using our contact form to request this information regarding your personal data disclosure.

If you are under 18, and have a registered account with us, you can request to have your information and data removed that you publicly posted (via comments). Be aware that while we will do our best to completely remove this information, it may not be completely removed from all our systems.

CCPA Privacy Notice

The California Code of Regulation defines a California resident as anyone residing in the State of California other than for temporary or transitory purposes and everyone who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for temporary or transitory purposes. If you do not meet these definitions you are defined and considered a “non-resident”.

It is your right to know what categories of personal information we collect. These information categories have been provided to third parties we use to help provide our Services in the last 12 months. These categories include:

1. Identifiers: (e.g. contact details including your real name, alias, postal address, phone or mobile number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, and account name)
2. Personal Information Categories: (e.g. name, contact information)
3. Commercial Information (via third party affiliates): purchase information. Please note that no specific or confidential transaction or financial information is provided to us.
4. Internet or Other Similar Network Activity: online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our website and third party affiliated networks/service providers, promotional content and advertisements.
5. Inferences Drawn from Other Personal Information: We may make inferences based upon other identifiable data provided to us in order to assume an overall user profile to further target our Services and grow our reach.
6. Geolocation Date: device location when accessing our Services

We may also collect personal information when you interact with us or reach out via email.

We share your personal information through:

1. targeting cookies/marketing cookies
2. social media cookies
3. web beacons or pixels/tags
4. social media plugins such as Smash Balloon. When using the like or share button to share our posts to social media, these features may process your IP address or track our website usage information such as the page you visited. We may also place a cookie to ensure the feature operates effectively. Once you leave our site to access a social media platform or share via social media you are bound to the corresponding entities Privacy Policy. By using the share/social media buttons/widgets on our website, you agree to the transfer of your information to the corresponding third party social media platform. We do not control and are to be held harmless for the extent of the transferred data and any additional processing that may occur by these social media services.

We may disclose your information to our service providers (e.g. hosting provider, email marketing services, etc.), affiliate networks we are a part of, and advertising networks. You can read more on specific information disclosure and and security information under the section “Security and Disclosure Information”.

We do not intend to sell your personal information. We may use your personal information for internal research, outreach, and growth of our website/services, and to target our Services and information provided, but this is not considered selling your personal information.

Request to Delete Personal Information: You can request us to delete your personal information we have on file at any time via contacting us. However, exceptions may be made to this if your information is needed for legal obligations or to protect from involvement in illegal activities.

Your Right to Know: You have the right to know and request to know whether we collect personal data, what categories of personal data we collect or disclose, purpose of the collected or disclosed information, and how it’s used. You also have the right to request and know the categories of third parties your information is disclosed or sold to for the purposes of providing our Services.

Requesting Personal Information on File: If you request to know what personal information is on file with us or that we have disclosed we will need to verify your identify and may ask for personal identifiers to verify the data and your identity based on the information we have on file. If we require additional information to verify your identity upon your request, we will delete this information once correspondence has ended.

Objecting Processing of Your Personal Information: You can also object to the processing of your personal information, request to correct personal data, or ask to restrict how we process your personal information. Under the CCPA you can also have an authorized agent make a request on your behalf.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personally identifiable information form children under the age of 13. All information and content on our website is intended for those 18 and older. Children under 13 are prohibited from using our Service/website. Please contact us if you believe your child has provided us with personal information so we can take necessary action to delete it and remove it from our servers. If we discover on our end that a child has provided Personal Information we will delete it immediately.

What rights you have over your data

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.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We have the right to revise and change our privacy policy at any time. You will be notified of changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. We advise you to review our privacy policy periodically to remain informed of our most current privacy practices. Privacy Policy changes are effective immediately upon updating our policy, posted on this page.