Who we are
Life With Aidalyn is a personal lifestyle blog sharing stories, experiences, and recommendations about travel, fashion, menopause, wellness, and everyday adventures.
Our website address is https://lifewithaidalyn.com.
We respect our visitors’ privacy and are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use your information when you visit our website.
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
Suggested text: 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.
Cookies
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.
Google Analytics and Website Tracking
Life With Aidalyn uses Google Analytics through Google Site Kit to understand how visitors interact with our website and to help improve our content and visitor experience.
Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, approximate geographic location, device and browser information, and how visitors find and interact with our website. Depending on our settings and applicable consent requirements, Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies.
We use this information to understand which articles readers enjoy, improve website performance, and make Life With Aidalyn more useful and enjoyable.
For more information about Google’s data practices, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Affiliate Links and Amazon Associates
Life With Aidalyn participates in affiliate marketing programs, including the Amazon Associates Program.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Some articles on this website contain affiliate links to products and services I personally enjoy, recommend, or believe may interest my readers. If you purchase through these links, I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.
When you click an affiliate link, you may be directed to a third-party website, such as Amazon. These websites may use cookies or other tracking technologies and collect information according to their own privacy policies.
Life With Aidalyn does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites. I encourage readers to review their privacy policies before providing personal information.
Affiliate relationships do not change my commitment to sharing genuine experiences, personal opinions, and useful recommendations.
Pinterest Tracking and Analytics
Life With Aidalyn uses Pinterest tracking technology through the PixelYourSite plugin to help understand how visitors interact with our website and content shared on Pinterest.
Pinterest may collect information such as pages visited, device and browser information, and interactions with our website. Pinterest tracking may use cookies or similar technologies, depending on the configuration and visitors’ privacy choices.
This information may help us measure traffic from Pinterest, understand audience interests, and improve our content and promotional activities.
For more information about Pinterest’s privacy practices, please visit https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.
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.
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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.