Privacy Policy

Who I am:

Welcome and thank you for stopping by Curly Hair Adventures, found at https://curlyhairadventures.com/ (“Website”).

I take my reader’s privacy seriously and am committed to maintaining your trust and confidence. I have this Privacy Policy in place to thoroughly explain:

  1. When I collect your personal information;
  2. How your personal information may be used.

While this policy is a bit lengthy, I hope you read through it carefully and find it easy to read based on how I structured it.

What personal data I collect and how it is used:

I may collect, store and transfer personal information about you and use it in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain Curly Hair Adventures;
  • To send you information about Curly Hair Adventures, such as newsletters. Each newsletter will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
  • To send you administrative communications, such as confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To respond to your comments and/or inquiries;
  • To provide me with anonymous analytics of my user base, which will help to cater content and advertising to my audience;
  • To provide a seamless user experience based on your browser and operating system.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on my site, I collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Akismet:

I use Akismet anti-spam service to help collect information about visitors who comment on my website. This information is collected to ensure that my website is filtering out spam comments.

Cookies

Cookies are small data files stored on your browser by my website. I may use the following cookies below:

Session cookies:
Session cookies expire once you close your browser.

Persistent cookies:
Persistent cookies are used on this website to collect information on your browsing behavior. Cookies are placed on the device you are viewing this site on and remember when the device accesses this website. These cookies do not collect personal information such as name or address, but monitor your behavior while browsing. These cookies and the information they collect help improve this site for yourself and future visitors by monitoring traffic of users and success of particular content. Cookies can be disabled by your web browser, although this will vary depending on what you’re using.

If you leave a comment on my 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.

Third party cookies:
Third party cookies let third parties to track the success of their application or customize the application for you. Because of how cookies work we cannot access these cookies, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used on my site.

For example, if you decide to ‘share’ my content through Twitter, or other social networks, you might be sent cookies from these websites. We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so please check those websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

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;
– Monitor your interaction with that embedded content. This can include tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Information you voluntarily submit

I may collect personal information you voluntarily submit to my website, such as name and email address. For instance, you may voluntarily submit personal information if you leave a comment. Or, by subscribing to my newsletter or submitting a contact form. You can provide this voluntary personal information on my website at your own discretion.

Automatically Collected Information

Certain information about you and the device you are using to access the website may automatically be collected. This information can include:

  • Your IP address;
  • Your operating system type;
  • Your browser type;
  • Pages you viewed;
  • The site that referred you;
  • When you accessed the website.

I may also collect information regarding actions you taking when using the website (e.g. links clicked).

Third-party use of personal information:

I may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize me to share your information. Curly Hair Adventures currently uses the following third-party service providers:

ConvertKit

As part of the registration process for my newsletter, I collect personal information (e.g. name and email address). I use that information for a few reasons:

  1. To tell you about stuff you’ve asked me to tell you about;
  2. To contact you if I need to obtain or provide additional information;
  3. To check my records are right, and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied ?

I don’t rent or trade email lists with other organizations and businesses. I use a third-party provider, ConvertKit, to deliver my newsletter. I gather statistics around email openings and clicks to help monitor and improve my newsletter. For more information, please see ConvertKit’s privacy policy. 

You can unsubscribe to this newsletter at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of my emails.

Google Analytics

When someone visits curlyhairadventures.com, I use Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. I do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the website. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. I do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting my website.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third party applications. However, this list may be updated for accuracy. 

YouTube

I use plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. If you visit one of my pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of my pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make Curly Hair Adventures appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that my web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of my plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Advertising:

Affiliate Programs

Curly Hair Adventures is a participant in the following affiliate programs:

  • Amazon Services LLC associates
  • OurX
  • CurlDaze
  • Black Girl Vitamins
  • RevAir
  • Adwoa Beauty
  • Uncle Funky’s Daughter
  • Getaway House 
  • Inahsi Naturals
  • Travel Insurance Master

An affiliate, associate, program is designed to provide a means for websites, like Curly Hair Adventures, to earn fees. I may be compensated if you interact with the links provided on my website, at no additional cost to you. I will disclose if there is an affiliate link on the same page I am embedding the affiliate link.

Please note, affiliate programs may utilize cookies to track visits for the purpose of assigning commission on these sales. Be sure to read each affiliate programs privacy policy to better understand how your data is being used.

How long do I keep your data?

I will not keep your information for longer than needed. 

  • Comments: When you voluntarily provide your name and email address for comments, this information may be kept indefinitely. This is to help recognize you when I am following up, or for when you comment at a later date.
  • Newsletter: When you voluntarily provide your name and email address for my mailing list, this information will be kept until you ask to be removed. Or, when Curly Hair Adventures is no longer active.

From the third parties I listed above, please be sure to review their privacy policies to understand how long they keep your data.

Access to your personal information:

If at any point you would like to view, update, amend or delete your personal data, feel free to email me at info@curlyhairadventuresblog.com.

Contact information:

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please feel free to contact me at info@curlyhairadventures.com. 

Last date this policy was reviewed: 4/12/24