Privacy Policy

Our website is https://homeaffluence.com/

Data Collected from your Use of this Site

We automatically receive certain data about the computer or device you are using when you visit this Site, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address; information about the browser or type of device you are using; data collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies (as described below in the “Cookies and Other Internet Technologies” section); the date and time of your visit; and the web page you visited immediately before visiting this Site.

We also collect data about videos or other content you view on this Site, like the type and name of the content and the time viewed.

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.

Contact Page

If you submit an email to the email address located on the contact page, note that this email might be kept and retained for customer service but will never be used or retained for marketing purposes.

Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for shopping carts, and provide anonymous tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. Advertising partners and/or third parties may also use cookies, scripts, and/or web beacons to track visitors to our site and display advertisements and other useful information.

Such tracking is done directly by the third parties through their own servers and is subject to their own privacy policies.  However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or looking at the About Cookies website, which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

Google Analytics

Based on our legitimate interests (i.e., interest in the analysis, optimization, and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. DSGVO), we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”).

Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the online offer by the users is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, which provides a guarantee to comply with European privacy legislation (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).

Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online offer by users to compile reports on the activities within this online offer and to provide us with further services related to the use of this online offer and internet usage. In this case, pseudonymous usage profiles of the users can be created from the processed data.

We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. This means that Google will shorten the IP address of the users within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

The IP address submitted by the user’s browser will not be merged with other data provided by Google. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; Users may also prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the online offer as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

For more information about Google’s data usage, settings, and opt-out options, please visit Google’s websites: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners (“Google’s use of your data when you use websites or apps of our partners”), https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads (“Advertising use of data”), https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated (“Managing information Google uses to show you ads”).

Incidentally, the personal data will be anonymized or deleted after 26 months.

Controlling Privacy

Please know that you can change your browser settings to disable cookies if you have privacy concerns. Disabling cookies for all sites is not recommended, as it may interfere with your use of some sites. The best option is to disable or enable cookies on a per-site basis. Consult your browser documentation for instructions on how to block cookies and other tracking mechanisms.

Google Advertising Cookies

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on its partners’ websites, such as those displaying Google ads or participating in Google-certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visits to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt-out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to outside parties unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety.  However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. Our website does contain links to affiliates and other websites. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies.  

Home Affluence does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices, and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our website and to read every website’s privacy statements that collect personally identifiable information. The aforementioned Privacy Policy Agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our website.

Advertising

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

Ezoic privacy policy can be found at https://g.ezoic.net/privacy/homeaffluence.com or http://g.ezoic.net/privacy/ homeaffluence.com  for HTTP.

Note: http://g.ezoic.net/privacy/homeaffluence.com/annualRequestSummary

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, or Instagram, to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Security

Home Affluence shall take every precaution to maintain adequate physical, procedural, and technical security concerning its offices and information storage facilities to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of the user’s personal information under our control.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, race or ethnic origin information, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children’s Information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information about a child under the age of 16 in its database, don’t hesitate to contact us. We will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Acceptance of Terms

You are now accepting the terms and conditions stipulated within this Privacy Policy agreement through this website. If you do not agree with our terms and conditions, you should refrain from further use of our sites.

In addition, your continued use of our website following the posting of any updates or changes to our terms and conditions shall mean that you agree and accept such changes.

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 similarly as if the visitor has visited another 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.

How long we retain your data

The comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely if you leave a comment. This is so we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments 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.

Questions

If you have any questions, please get in touch with haffluence@gmail.com.