At Organic Lifestyle Magazine, LLC (“Organic Lifestyle Magazine”) we appreciate your readership and support and place a high value on your personal privacy. We respect the personal nature of the information you provide us on our website and staunchly recognize the importance of protecting this information. In adopting this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”), our intent is to balance our legitimate business interests in collecting and using your personal information with your reasonable expectations of privacy. This Privacy Policy may be revised or updated at any time and we encourage you to check back often to ensure that you are familiar with the most recent version and the terms of our Privacy Policy.
Who we are
Organic Lifestyle Magazine – our website address is: https://organiclifestylemagazine.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
You may provide personal information to Organic Lifestyle Magazine several ways including: (1) by sharing your e-mail address when subscribing to our newsletter, (2) by sharing personal information when you submit news tips to our editorial team or by submitting a report via our Contact Form.
In addition to basic contact information, our analytics trackers may also collect other information. This may include the operating system you are working on, the Internet browser you are using, and the screen resolution of your computer.
Comments
We are not allowing comments at this time.
Social Sharing
As of May 25, 2018, our share buttons no longer have any tracking capabilities.
Contact forms
When visitors fill out contact forms on our site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and the visitor’s IP address and the browser type to help with spam detection.
Cookies
Readers that are not writing for Organic Lifestyle Magazine have no reason to log in. We do utilize cookies for those who write for us to allow them to log in and use the “backend” of our website.
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. In other words, if you see a YouTube video on a website, expect YouTube to use cookies as they would if you were on their 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.
Analytics
In addition to basic contact information, our analytics trackers may also collect other information. This may include the operating system you are working on, the Internet browser you are using, and the screen resolution of your computer.
Who we share your data with
Noone! But our page serves Google Ads, check out policies.google.com for more information and adssettings.google.com to personalize your settings.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information provided for the user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except usernames cannot be changed). 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 (from when we had 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.
How does Organic Lifestyle Magazine use my personal information?
We will not abuse your trust. If you give us your email, we will not use your email in any other way than what would be expected. Depending on the portion of our site that you have subscribed to or interacted with, we may use your information in a number of ways.
- The email address you provided through our newsletter subscription form enables us to send you a daily digest of Organic Lifestyle Magazine news stories. This subscription is entirely opt-in by the user. (We cannot subscribe you to the newsletter as you personally must have access to the email account in order to verify the subscription.) Subscribers can opt-out of our newsletter at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link that is present on every email at the very bottom of the newsletter.
- The email address that you use when contacting us with an editorial tip or via our Contact Form will not be used for any reason but for the purposes of responding to your inquiry.
- The email address associated with your account when you comment on our stories may be used in conjunction with contests and promotions hosted on Organic Lifestyle Magazine’s website to notify you if you have won. Email addresses provided in comments are not usually used for any other reason except that they may be used as a customer service and policy violation contact mechanism
- If you choose to comment on Organic Lifestyle Magazine stories through Twitter and/or Facebook Connect, we do not get access to your email address nor do we have any access to your personal data or private information.
- We ask for a Twitter or Facebook account to verify the legitimacy of accounts voting in our Organic Lifestyle Magazine Awards. We do not get any access to your personal data or private information.
- We use Disqus and Facebook user commenting. We do not get any access to your personal data or private information.
To maintain a site that is free of charge, we display advertisements on our website. At no time does any party other than Organic Lifestyle Magazine have access to your personally identifiable information (with the exception of Google who maintains our RSS subscription-by-email service and our survey providers), and unless we have your consent, you will never be contacted by any party other than Organic Lifestyle Magazine. The only exceptions to the foregoing are that we may disclose personally identifiable information (i) in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or subpoena, (ii) in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take actions regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of another person, violations of our terms of use, or as otherwise required by law, or (iii) in the event we are acquired by or merged with another company.
When you sign up for our updates or receive e-mail messages from Organic Lifestyle Magazine, you will always be given the chance to opt-out of our communications. You may change your preferences at any time and will only be contacted in manners consistent with your stated preferences.
Non-personally identifiable information (such as stated above) may be shared in aggregate form with our advertisers, business, or marketing partners but your personally identifiable information will never be disclosed to them.
Who else has access to my personal information?
Some of the ads appearing on Organic Lifestyle Magazine’s website are delivered to you by Google Ads, DoubleClick. Information about your visit to this site, such as the number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you on this site. And, in the course of serving advertisements to this site, third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. For more information about DoubleClick, cookies, and how to “opt-out”, please go to doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy
Also, check out policies.google.com for more information and adssettings.google.com to personalize your settings.
Third parties and websites that have links on our site may also collect or use information about you. The information practices of other companies or people that Organic Lifestyle Magazine does not employ or manage are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
Accounts associated with Organic Lifestyle Magazine are all ‘public.’ By ‘public,’ we mean that certain information will be viewable by all users (not your email). What you see on other user profiles is the same information that other users can see about you.