Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY, DISCLAIMERS,
AND TERMS OF USE

Who we are.

Journey Jitters, found at https://www.journeyjitters.com/ (“Website”, “Site”, “site”, “we”, “us”, “I”, or “our”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), disclaimers (“Disclaimers”), and terms of use (“Terms of Use”). This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which the Website collects, uses, maintains, stores, and discloses information collected from users of the Website. This statement only applies to this Website.

Disclaimers

Information on this Website is for educational and informational purposes only. Although every attempt to make the information accurate, errors can occur. Statements are based off our own experiences and research through various sources at the time the article is published. It is the users rights and responsibilities to verify all information for accuracy. We make no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other internet resources. We will provide no responsibility or liability for any damages, losses, or injuries incurred by users for the use of this Website. Additionally, as information is provided for educational and informational purposes only, they are not intended to serve as medical or professional advice. Please consult your physician for your particular needs, or if you have any questions or concerns. By using information on this site, you (or your representative) agree and understand that this site (and its owner) disclaim any and all responsibility or liability and will provide no liability for any damages, losses, or injuries that may occur.

What personal data we collect.

We may collect personal information from you such as your name, email address, or website. We collect this information when you voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, submitting to the Contact Me form, entering information on our Website, or when leaving comments, questions, feedback, discussions, testimonals, and/or answers in our Community Forum. You may also register and create a user profile by creating a username and password. Your user login, display name, and user role will be stored, but passwords will not be visible in our records. You may also visit this site anonymously.

Automatically collected information about you and the device with which you access the Website may also be collected, such as: IP address, location data, login attempts/actions, post or page publish actions, comment/pinback submissions and actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, modifications of other various site settings and options, operating system type, browser type, browser user agent string, referring website, pages you viewed, dates/times you accessed the Website, any actions you may take when using the Website, links you may have clicked on, pictures you may have saved, anonymous data, cookies, or other information about you from other sources, for example: accounts linked to your user profile through social media, the Gravatar service, or others.

Comments

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

User profile, user name, comments left on articles, comments or discussions in the community forum, avatars/gravatar, and links to your website or social media may be publicly visible. Therefore, you should be careful when submitting information about yourself to the Website.

Media

If you upload images to the Website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Website can download and extract any location data from images on the Website.

Cookies

Like many websites, we also use “cookie” technology to collect additional website usage data and improve the Site and our service. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk. We do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information. We do set cookies in a number of different locations across our services. Buffer may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with the Site and our Service, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on the Site, and to improve the Site and our services. A session cookie enables certain features of the Site and our service and is deleted from your computer when you disconnect from or leave the Site. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing it options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.

This Website uses cookies to store visitor’s record user-specific information, preferences, comments, and may also be used by third-party services.

If you leave a comment on our 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.

If you have an account and you log in to this Site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

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.

Please be aware, if you turn off cookies, some of the Website features or experiences may not function properly.

Links and embedded content from other websites.

This Website contains links to other sites, websites, applications, or services operated by third parties. We do not control or own them. We accept no liability or responsibility for those sites, websites, third party services providers, or applications. We do not expressly support or imply the opinions, accuracy, or content of the information on any links, sites, websites, third party service providers, or applications listed, found or used by this Website.

Articles on this Website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, forms, apps, 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, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content. Third party service provider’s, applications, and websites use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies and this Privacy Policy does not apply to them. Please consult the terms and conditions and the privacy policies of those third party websites, service providers, and applications on how they collect and use your personal data and cookies.

Why we collect information and personal data and how we may use or share it?

We may use collected information and data in the following ways:

To administer, operate, support, improve, fix, and maintain the Website;
To help us improve our Website; its usability, and/or communication and/or services to you;
To help us personalize content for you and offer better Website experiences and/or tools;
To protect our website, our users, rights, property, others and the public.
To meet legal and regulatory requirements. We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
To help us with spam detection, abuse, risk analysis, and unsolicited information;
To monitor usage of the Website, site traffic, site interaction, and compile aggregate data;
To allow us to better service you in responding to questions, requests and comments;
We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties when you authorize us to do so;
To register and create your users account, profile, and help identify you as a user of the Website;
To send you periodic emails, newsletters, administrative communications, confirmations emails, technical notes, alerts, or updates;
To provide you with user support or requests (including password resets which may include your IP address and other identifiers);
To help support, improve and monitor user interaction and statements within the comments and the community forum areas of the Website;
Information you shared publicly like likes, comments, profile information, posts, pictures, gravatar;
To refer to, reproduce, copy or distribute any comments, discussions, photographs, or feedback on the Websites articles or community forum to its Website or through its social media links;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized use or illegal activity.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information
A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:
(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account, subscription, newsletter or other services and communication provided to you (including any recommendations or requests made by you or in benefit of you); or
(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalize your experience; or
(5) You have given us your consent.

Personal Use of Information, Third Parties, and Analytics.

Other than as expressly set out in this Privacy Policy, or when required by law, or to protect or enforce our site policies, ours or other’s rights, property or safety, we will not sell, share or distribute your personal information without your consent. This Website does use and may disclose your personal information to third-party service websites, providers, applications and analytics to help us service and improve various aspects of this Website. Third party service provider’s, applications, and analytics use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies and this Privacy Policy does not apply to them. Please consult the terms and conditions and the privacy policies of those third party websites, service providers, applications, and analytics on how they collect and use your personal data and cookies.

At no time should you submit any sensitive personal information to this Website. This includes your address, phone number, social security number, race, ethnic background, political opinion, religious beliefs, health information, passwords used on other sites, or criminal background. Any information you submit will be subject to this Privacy Policy. The Website retains it’s right to remove, delete or destroy any personal information, comments or forum discussions it feels violates its policies and/or it’s rights or the rights of others, and/or at its discretion. Users of this Website also acknowledge and agree that all comments, discussions, photographs, and feedback in it’s article comments or community forum may be referred to, reproduced, copied or distributed by the Website on it’s Website or through its social media links as it sees fit.

Who we may share your data with.

We may share your data and information with Google Analytics, Google +, Google XML Sitemaps, Google Business Applications,Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools, Akismet Ant-Spam, Cloudfare, CodeGuard, CleanTalk, NeverBounce, Cloud Asgaros Forum, Jetpack, MailPoet, Laza Themes, Bluehost, Third-Party Vendors, reCAPTCHA service, WordPress, Legal and Regulatory Services, and social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Tumbler, and Youtube. This list is not meant to be all-inclusive and exhaustive and may include others not listed.

Visitor comments and subscriber information may be checked through an automated spam detection service, reCAPTHCA service or other automated detection service providers. We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

This list may be amended at any time at the Website’s sole discretion.

How long we retain your data.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely, or until changes are made to the site, and/or deleted. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically 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.

What rights you have over your data.

If you have an account on this Website, 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.

You may opt-out of future emails, communications, or newsletters, edit or delete your user profile, by following the unsubscribe links in our emails, editing or changing your settings in your user profile account, or by contacting us at Jo************@Jo************.com . You may also limit information you provide, limit access to your information on your mobile device, set your browser to reject cookies, and/or close your account.

Your Rights.

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including some US states and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

US Privacy Laws

Laws in some US states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia, require us to provide residents with additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it. You’ll find that information in this section (if you are a California resident, please note that this is the Notice at Collection we are required to provide you under California law).

In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information, depending on the Services used:

Identifiers (like your name, contact information, and device and online identifiers);
Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as your usage of our Services, like the actions you take as an administrator of a WordPress.com site);
Geolocation data (such as your location based on your IP address);
Audio, electronic, visual or similar information (such as pictures or your profile picture, if you uploaded one);
Inferences we make (such as likelihood of retention or attrition).

You can find more information about what we collect and sources, how long we retain this information, and how we use or share data and information in the sections listed above.

In some US states you have additional rights subject to any exemptions provided by your state’s respective law, including the right to:

Request a copy of the specific pieces of information we collect about you and, if you’re in California, to know the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, and the categories of third parties we share it with;
Request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain;
Request correction of personal information we collect or maintain;
Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information;
Receive a copy of your information in a readily portable format; and
Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights.

How we protect your data.

We use appropriate security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access; however, by using this Website, you acknowledge that data transmission over the internet is inherently unsecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data you send over the internet.

Personal Information on Children.

This Website does not specifically market or knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16 years old. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 years of age, please contact us immediately at Jo************@Jo************.com .

Changes, Acceptance of Terms of Privacy Policy, Disclaimers, User Agreement, and Contact Information.

Please contact Jo************@Jo************.com at any time for questions related to this Privacy Policy, Disclaimers, or its Terms of Use. We reserved the right to update them (collectively Private Policy, Disclaimers, of Terms of Use) at any time. By using this Website, you acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy, Disclaimers, and Terms of Use periodically for changes and modifications. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or User Agreement, please do not use our Website. Your continued use of this Website will be deemed your acceptance of these terms and any changes.