This privacy policy sets out how The Docket Blog uses and protects any information that you give while using www.thedocketblog.com.
This policy may change from time to time. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 12/1/2019.
Your information
You may choose to provide your contact information including, but not limited to, name, email address, and social media handles. If you choose to leave comments on this website, they will be publicly visible.
Some information is automatically collected. This information is unidentifiable and includes IP address, referring website, pages viewed, browser type, links clicked, demographic information, preferences, and interests may be collected automatically.
We use this information to improve the website, facilitate giveaways, place ads, send newsletters, and post comments on the site. Anonymous data may be provided to third parties for marketing or advertising purposes – this includes analytics information and data collected by cookies.
At no time should you submit your sensitive personal information, including your social security number, race, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, or criminal background.
This website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at katherine@thedocketblog.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
How your information will be used
We use the information we collect to run this website, send newsletters, response to comments, and to track and measure advertising on the website.
Third party use of your information
This website uses third party service providers including Google Analytics and Mail Chimp. Except when required by law, we do not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials or private parties to enforce and comply with applicable laws. We may disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect our property or rights or the property or rights of a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to otherwise comply with applicable laws.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Advertising
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
This website may engage in remarketing efforts with third party companies including Google, Facebook, or Instagram. This companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the website.
Affiliate programs
The website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by tracking links embeded in this website. When you click on an affiliate link, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for commission purposes. The Docket Blog is a participant in the RewardStyle affiliate program. As part of this program, this website will post customized links provided by RewardStyle to track referrals to their partner websites. The purpose of this is to track visits and to assign commissions to sales.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Contact information
You can email katherine@thedocketblog.com with any questions about this policy.
Last updated: 12/2019