Overview

Your privacy is very important us. The broad overview of our policies are as follows:

• We won’t ask you for personal information unless we need it. For example, we collect information in order to help you with a request initiated by you, such as to join our email list, or to respond to you when you have reached out to us via our contact form.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, to protect our rights, or to increase end-user functionality and user-enjoyment and accessibility of our website and social media platforms.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of this site.

Our website address is: https://donnabrothers.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

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.

Contact forms

To assist with sending you requested information, we use Constant Contact to initiate that communication. When you have requested to join our contact list, Constant Contact will collect that email and add it to our contact list. Constant Contact outlines their use of your personal data and anonymized data here. You may opt out of the collection of your data by unsubscribing from our contact list in any email that you receive from us. If you need to reach out to sendinblue, you may contact them using the instructions on their privacy page: https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-notice.

Cookies

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.

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.

This site includes functionality provided by third parties. For example, embedded YouTube videos on some of our pages, an embedded Google maps, and anonymous site-wide metrics collected by Google Analytics. When you visit a page with content embedded from a third party provider, these providers may set their own cookies in your browser.

All of these cookies are from well-known and reputable third party service providers, but we do not control the use of these cookies and cannot access them. Please check with the third party providers listed below for more information about their cookies.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

None

Functionality & Performance Cookies

Cookie	Source
_ga, _ga_*	Google Analytics
_mailmunch_visitor_id, mailmunch_second_pageview	Mailmunch

Advertising/Tracking Cookies

None

Embedded content from other websites

As mentioned above, some articles on this site may include embedded or linked 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, 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.

Analytics

We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect is anonymized and sent to Google Analytics for analysis. Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement. Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Who we share your data with

Data is shared only to the extent that it provides website functionality to service providers, application development, site hosting, maintenance, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, marketing, analytics, and enforcement of our other agreements when applicable.

We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. 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 site, or have left comments, 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the Personal Data and risks involved in processing that information.

Third party websites

This site may contain links to websites owned or operated by third parties. We do not control, nor are we responsible for, the privacy and data collection, use, and disclosure practices of third-party websites.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy is indicated by the “Last Updated” date at the top of the Privacy Policy. All changes are effective immediately upon posting. Please review this Privacy Policy frequently to stay updated on changes that may affect you. Your continued use of this website signifies your continuing consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

If you have questions about our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@donnabrothers.com.

Last Updated: January 11, 2024