Privacy Policy – Last Updated on 23 October 2018
Who we are
You privacy is very important to us at https://beahappymom.com. We have therefore put this privacy policy together, in order to explain how we collect, store and make use of your personal information when you visit this website.
Be A Happy Mom is a website managed by Shoshanah Shear. Shoshanah is a registered occupational therapist, healing facilitator, certified infant massage instructor, certified Kallah teacher, author, artist, photographer and writer.
Be A Happy Mom is a subsection of Chessed Ve’Emet. Chessed Ve’Emet is a Torah organization, dedicated to the teachings of authentic Torah Judaism, spirituality and mysticism. Acts of Loving Kindness is an important part of Torah. An area that is important to us is strengthening or empowering widows and orphans.
Use of Our Site
By reading our Privacy Policy, readers agree to our terms and conditions for our site and the way we interact, gather your information and use it as related on this page.
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
When you send us a message via our contact form, your name and email address is gathered. This enables us to know that you are not a robot and who is contacting us. This helps us to be able to send a suitable reply to your question or comment and to follow up if the need arises.
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.
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
Be A Happy Mom uses Google Analytics to gather information and statistics regarding the visitors to this website. The type of statistics gathered is general including, number of readers per day, per week and per month. What geographical regions our readers come from, what pages were visited and how long readers remain on each page. This information helps us to gain insight into which articles are more popular and which might require improvement. Information is used purely in order to assist in making our readers experience a more enjoyable one.
Data gathered by Google Analytics is stored on the Google Analytics website. You can find out more about how Google Analyitcs works by visiting Google Analytics Privacy Policy
Newsletter
Be A Happy Mom (https://beahappymom.com/) has a newsletter, with the opportunity to sign-up directly from the website. Signing up requires a double opt-in to make sure that you wish to join and are not a robot. When signing up for the newsletter, you are required to enter your name and email address. This enables us to send you the newsletters.
Be A Happy Mom uses MailChimp to send out our newsletters. MailChimp does store specific data e.g. name and email address and also statistics as to whether you open the newsletter, how long you spend reading it etc. For more information as to MailChimps privacy policy please visit
https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy
At the bottom of every email, there is an option to unsubscribe. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, simply click the unsubscribe button. If you have any questions, please be in touch via our contact page.
Emails are currently sent out once a month or one in two months, with plans to increase to once in two weeks.
Payments
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Who we share your data with
Your information is kept private. We do not share your information with anyone. We also do not sell your your data and have no plans to sell this site.
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.
Advertising
We use Google Adsense on this site. Google identifies the types of topics that our readers visit more frequently in order to provide adverts that might be of interest to our readers. For more about how Google gathers and uses your information, please visit Google Privacy Policy
Intellectual Property Rights
All content provided on this website is written by Shoshanah Shear. In the event that articles are written by a guest writer, the post will be listed as Guest Post together with the author’s name and surname.
Any stock photographs are mostly from Pixabay. Other photographs are the photography of Shoshanah Shear or Eliayhu Shear.
Copyright of Content, photographs and intellectual property are the property of Eliyahu and Shoshanah Shear and may not be used without written consent from the authors or photographers
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns related to any of the above, contacting us is simple. You can send a question via our contact page on https://beahappymom.com/contact-us/