Who we are
Our website address is https://diaryofaselfhelpaddict.com. This is a personal blog written and edited by the owner. For questions about this blog, please get in touch with us by email at kelly@diaryofaselfhelpaddict.com
This blog is for informational and educational purposes only. The content on this blog or other platforms including social media where the owner shares information is not medical or professional advice and is not for children under 18 years old.
This blog accepts cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions, or other forms of compensation.
This blog abides by word-of-mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty in relationships, opinions, and identity. The compensation may influence this blog’s advertising content, topics, or posts. That content, advertising space, or post will be identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owner of this blog is not compensated to provide opinions on products, services, websites, and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the owner’s. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic, product, or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest
Affiliates
As an Amazon Associate, our website contains affiliate links, which means we earn from qualifying purchases.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors 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.
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
Your privacy is important to us. We safeguard your information and we never sell to third parties. We use third-party advertisements, Google Analytics, Convert Kit and social media sites like YouTube, FaceBook, Pinterest and Instagram. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons to send information such as but not limited to your IP address, ISP, web browser, date/time you visited the site, pages you viewed and links you clicked. These companies use this information mostly for geotracking to show you ads based on sites you’ve visited.
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. 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.
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.