PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE
Please enjoy this page-turner of a Privacy Policy that hopefully keeps all of my advertisers, the FTC, random lawyers, and the European Union totally happy. Please use Hey Cara Noel at your own risk.
WHO WE ARE
Our website address is https://heycaranoel.com, and it’s 99% run by me (that’s just a guess; sometimes I ask for help). My name is Cara Keating. You’ll notice I use the word “we” a lot here. Consider it the royal “we.” If you need to contact me, please email me at cara@heycaranoel.com.
WHAT DATA OF YOURS WE COLLECT AND WHAT WE DO WITH IT
We’re trying to give YOU information, not take yours. Like pretty much any other site, there are bits of your data collected when you visit. Most of this occurs via web cookies. At any time, you can send an email request, and we’ll erase any personal data associated with your email address stored on this site.
ADVERTISING
Hey Cara Noel allows third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit this site. As well as to local businesses. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third-party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice, visit the NAI at http://www.networkadvertising.org. To opt out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp or http://www.youradchoices.com/.
Hey Cara Noel 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. Hey Cara Noel also contains other advertising and affiliate marketing links. A commission on sales of the products that are linked may be earned. There may also be affiliate links from third-party websites. Cookies may be used to track these purchases.
Basically, this is my job, and I make money from ads and commissions when you buy using my affiliate links. Sometimes, little bits of data follow you around on the internet to help me do this.
COMMENTS
When you leave a comment on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form. We also collect IP addresses and browsers to help detect spam comments.
The Gravatar service collects an anonymized string derived from your email address and uses it to check whether you are using Gravatar. This is what places your profile picture beside your comments. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
If we link to or embed content on this site (e.g., videos, images, articles) from other websites, it behaves as if you had visited that site.
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.
ANALYTICS
Google Analytics provides us with visitor data and statistics. We don’t sell this data, but we sometimes aggregate it to sell ourselves. “Look at how many cool people are visiting our site! You should totally hire us!” Read more about Google Analytics data practices here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
PUBLISHING PARTNERS
Remember those ads I mentioned above? Another way I make money is by creating sponsored content. Influencer marketing companies and local businesses sometimes use tracking tools to monitor engagement with their sponsored content. You’ll always see a disclosure at the top of any sponsored content, indicating it’s advertising.