About Shari Zook
Shari Zook is a wife, mother of seven, foster parent, and author. She blogs at sharizook.com.
Her mailing address is 21205 Hunter Rd, Meadville, PA 16335.
Collection of Personal Data
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 at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
You can read Google’s terms and privacy for more information.
User Registration
For users that register on our website, 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.
Cookies
If you visit our login page, 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.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics on this site. Google Analytics gathers data about you as our visitors. It records what website you came from to get here, how long you stay, what pages you visit, what kind of browser you’re using, and a lot more technical data. The tracking information helps us to understand what attracts people to this site and what they read. This helps us make good decisions about the design and content for this site. Occasionally we aggregate statistics about the visitors to this site. No personally identifying data is included in this type of reporting. We respect the bounds of the Google Analytics Terms of Service. If you prefer to avoid this tracking, you can opt out of Google’s advertising tracking cookie or use a browser plugin to opt out of all Google Analytics tracking software.
Data Retention
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, 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.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, and articles. 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.
Our Partners
Our website is hosted by Wordify in their Columbus, Ohio (US) datacenter. They do not retain personal data that is stored on our site or sent through contact forms.
Cloudflare provides a content delivery network for our website, improving security, reliability, and performance. They do not retain personal data that is stored on our site or sent through contact forms.
Mailchimp provides our email newsletter service, and stores contact information about those who subscribe to receive our newsletters.
We use Akismet to reduce spam. Please view the Akismet Privacy policy here.
We use Jetpack to protect the website from malicious login attempts and track site use by visitors. Our use of the Jetpack service is governed by Automattic.com’s cookie policy.
Amazon Associates provides marketing links to products on Amazon.com, as described in their operating agreement. As an Amazon Associate we earn commissions from qualifying purchases.
We earn advertising income through the Google AdSense network, which places advertisements on our website.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to this site’s users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Ryan Zook serves as webmaster for the site, and he has learned a thing or two about discretion over the last few years.
Your Data Rights
We do not share, sell, lease, or otherwise provide your personal information to any partners or providers without your consent.
If you have an account on this site, 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.
To request an exported file of your personal data, or to request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, please email [email protected].
Additional Information
Data Protection
Communication between our site and your computer or mobile device is encrypted using a secure certificate.
Security updates to our website are automatically installed, with daily update checks by our webmaster.
Data Breaches
If our website is breached by a third party, we will disclose to all users with accounts on this website the nature and extent of the breach, including any personal information that may have been compromised.
Changes to this Policy
This privacy policy is effective as of October 18, 2023. This policy may be amended without prior notice. We encourage you to review this policy regularly to ensure you agree with the terms of ongoing use.