Your privacy is very important to us. At Frugal Country Life we have a few fundamental principles that we follow. We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Frugal Country Life collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Frugal Country Life’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Frugal Country Life’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Frugal Country Life may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Frugal Country Life also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Frugal Country Life only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Frugal Country Life website choose to interact with us in ways that require Frugal Country Life to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Frugal Country Life gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Frugal Country Life updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Frugal Country Life collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. Frugal Country Life does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, doing so may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Frugal Country Life may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, we may monitor the most popular pages on our site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Frugal Country Life may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Frugal Country Life does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Frugal Country Life discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Frugal Country Life’s behalf or to provide services available at Frugal Country Life’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Frugal Country Life’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Frugal Country Life will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Frugal Country Life discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Frugal Country Life believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Frugal Country Life, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of Frugal Country Life’s website and have supplied your email address, Frugal Country Life may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Frugal Country Life and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum, except for those who have signed up for our email newsletter. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Frugal Country Life takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Frugal Country Life uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of the Frugal Country Life website, and their website access preferences. Frugal Country Life visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Frugal Country Life’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Frugal Country Life’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Frugal Country Life, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Frugal Country Life goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Frugal Country Life may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you based on your visit to Frugal Country Life or other sites on the internet. Users of this site can disable or selectively turn off cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings or in the settings of your internet security program such as Norton. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Frugal Country Life and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Frugal Country Life may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Frugal Country Life’s sole discretion. Frugal Country Life encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.