Disclosure, Privacy Policy and Copyright

Disclosure and Privacy Policy

Here at What Do We Do All Day? we protect your privacy to the best of our ability. What Do We Do All Day? is a website owned and operated in the United States of America. Its content is aimed at persons in the United States over the age of 18. This website was not created to serve, nor does it actively market to residents outside of the United States.

This policy explains when and why we collect information about you, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.

We may change this policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our website, you agree to be bound by this policy.

Effective October 9, 2019

How we collect and use information

Like most sites on the internet, information about you is collected via cookies, leaving comments on the site, or subscribing to our newsletter. More information on this is below.

Comments

If you leave a comment on the site, it will be publicly displayed along with the name you include. Your email address is NEVER publicly displayed or shared with any third party, but is stored in our database. If you include a web address it will be displayed. We reserve the right to delete comments at our discretion.

You should avoid leaving any public comments of a personal nature on this website. We also encourage the use of first name only or a pseudonym when leaving a public comment.

Newsletters/Email

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. When you sign up for emails from us, your email address, IP address, time stamp of sign up is retained by our newsletter service. When you sign up for our email newsletter you agree to receive emails from us. Emails may be informational newsletters or promotions and announcements related to content we feel is of interest to you.

As of this writing, the email address and any additional information supplied (e.g. IP address) will be held on the ConvertKit server for as long as you wish to receive newsletters from What Do We Do All Day. Newsletters contain tracking pixels. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. This allows us to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

All email communication from us will clearly state who the email is from and will provide clear information on how to contact the sender. All e-mail messages will contain information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further email communication from us.

Should you wish to discontinue receiving newsletters, please hit unsubscribe link which is located at the bottom of every email we send out. If you wish us to delete your email address and data completely and irrevocably, please contact us. You can read ConvertKit's privacy policy on their website.

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

(a) to make it easier to comment on the blog; i.e. storing name, email and website if provided by you

9b) advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you; and

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Analytic data includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences(Firefox);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/cookies/ (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Transfer of personal data
We will not transfer your personal data unless we are under legal obligation to do so.

Sale of Business or Assets

In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.

Removal of personal data
If you are resident of the EEA, at any point you may ask that we remove your information from our systems. Please contact erica [at] whatdowedoallday.com and we will do so within 30 days.

Children’s Information

What Do We Do All Day? does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in its database, please contact us immediately at erica [at] whatdowedoallday.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, click the opt out link provided in the footer of this page. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at info@adthrive.com. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the "Effective Date" posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.

For questions about this privacy policy, please contact erica@whatdowedoallday.com.

Compensation/Sponsorship/Affiliates

This blog may accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received may influence the choice and timing of content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be identified as paid or sponsored content in accordance with FTC disclosure rules.

As a rule, I am not interested in writing sponsored content unless it is about a topic I am passionate about. Even though I may be compensated to provide an opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics I will always give my honest opinion.

Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question. I cannot be held liable for any damages incurred while using this website or products I've linked to. Links to other websites are provided for convenience and information only. When you click on a link to another website, you may be leaving What Do We Do All Day? The presence of a link on What Do We Do All Day? does not mean that I endorse, authorize or sponsor the linked website, or that I am affiliated with that website’s owners or sponsors. I am not responsible for and assume no liability for the content or presentation of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites.

What Do We Do All Day? is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. Amazon Affiliates, a third party system, uses cookies to serve advertisements and links to products on Amazon.com. You may read more about Amazon Affiliates and their Operating Agreement here.

What Do We Do All Day? uses affiliate links for products created and sold by third parties. In addition to Amazon, affiliate partners include, but are not limited to: Bookshop, Indiebound, KiwiCo. Blog owner may receive a commission for purchases made through these affiliate links.

Requests for Product Features/Book Reviews:

Please understand that I receive numerous requests for product reviews or features on a daily basis. I do read them, and am unlikely to answer your request personally, but that doesn't mean I haven't put it on my library hold list.

Before you request a book review. Please not the following ... I do not feature independently published books that are not widely available at libraries. I do not publish single book reviews, only book lists. If I do answer your request and read your book, I may include it on a book list at my discretion.

I no longer publish sponsored posts or partner with brands (as of 2023). If your email is titled "Work with me," or something similar, it will be a miracle if I answer it.

Copyright:

All content (unless otherwise specified) on whatdowedoallday.com is protected by the United States copyright and trademark law, international conventions, and other applicable laws. All materials contained on this website are the intellectual property of the blog owner. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited.

We are not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without our permission.

This privacy policy is subject to change without notice.