Privacy Policy and Disclosure - Our Ivy Farmhouse

We take pride in every post that we share with our valued readers here on Our Ivy Farmhouse, and any product, service or business we promote will only be those in which we believe in. Our honest opinions will always be given. Any such affiliated products, a brand or advertiser which we choose to partner with will never influence the content of our blog posts.

The content of our blog is a source of income for us and therefore may be used to promote products, services, or other businesses. When we link to a product or website where we receive a commission based on the sale of such products, any commission is at no cost to our readers. It is important to us that we disclose to our readers whenever a post contains any links to our affiliates. We will make our readers aware by adding a disclaimer in any such post(s).

We will only choose to promote products/services/businesses that we personally believe in, have used and/or that we feel will be beneficial to our readers.
Mentions of associated products/services/businesses within the content of our blog may or may not be noted as an affiliate in every reference.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites
Views/reviews of any product that we share are completely our 100% honest opinions, whether that business is an affiliate or not.

The content on this blog is solely the options of its administrators and not meant to provide any medical, financial or legal advice. Any financial posts are for the purposes of entertainment to our readers.

Please note, we do not post sponsored ‘do-follow’ links, all links are ‘no-follow.’

We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission.

The privacy of our visitors to Our Ivy Farmhouse is important to us.

At Our Ivy Farmhouse, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit https://ourivyfarmhouse.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on https://ourivyfarmhouse.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (“interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

Newsletter Privacy Policy

We offer members-only free content to subscribers of our mail list. Readers can choose to provide a name and email address for this. We do not share that information with anyone, and will never send spam.

We send informative emails with information about decor, gardening, and homesteading.

Subscribers can unsubscribe from this list at any time by clicking ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of the email from us.

We Are GDPR Compliant – GDPR Policy

We are in compliance with GDPR and our email service provider, Mailchimp is too.

The Right To Be Forgotten

The right to be forgotten is a GDPR mandate that allows subscribers to ask to delete all of the data associated with them.

You may unsubscribe from our emails at anytime, and request that we remove all of your information and data associated, and we will delete it in it’s entirety
Under GDPR, each of our subscribers in the EU has the right to erasure (or the right to be forgotten), meaning they can contact us and we, and our mail service provider will delete all of their personal data from all systems.
As well, an unsubscribe link is at the bottom of each email sent
Also in the bottom of our emails, we remind you why you are receiving this email, reminding you where you opted in to receive them in the first place

Proof Of Subscriber Consent

When a subscriber opts-in to join our mailing list, they are given a double opt-in where they must confirm their subscription to join the list, and to receive the opt-in incentive. Mailchimp adds a custom check box feature to our forms, for all EU subscribers to further verify that they are consenting to receive marketing emails.

Our ConvertKit signup forms automatically create a proof of consent by capturing the IP address, location, date, time, and the source of the consent form. This information will solidify your documentation of where, when and at what time subscribers consented.

The ConvertKit Data Processing Agreement (DPA) offers contractual terms that meet GDPR requirements and reflect the data privacy and security commitments to customers. Each customer processing personal data on behalf of EU/EEA individuals will be able to sign this contract with ConvertKit and keep it on file for their records.

Identifying EU Citizens

ConvertKit provides a rule in the subscriber filter where we can sort our subscribers by location, to help us easily sort GDPR subscribers.

We are aware of the chance that a EU citizen could be living abroad in a non-EU country. In these cases, it is impossible to identify them as EU citizens. But we are compliant in our efforts to be within all GDPR laws, and to the best of our ability use the tools that are available to identify EU citizens.

Thus, we apply the GDPR compliance factors mentioned above to everyone on our list, no matter their citizenship.

Comment Policy

This blog is intended to be a place of support and empowerment to its readers. We aim to post informative and interesting content in a positive and pleasant manner, and this policy extends to our comment section. Readers are welcomed to comment on any of our posts, but simply put: be kind and respectful of others in the way you do so. Any language that is homophobic, sexist, racist or otherwise deemed hateful will not be tolerated. Such comments will be deleted and the commenter may be banned, at the discretion of the website’s moderators.

Your Acceptance Of These Terms

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on June 11, 2021. If you have any questions feel free to contact us at ourivyfarmhouse {at} gmail {dot} com.

Last updated: June 11, 2021

Disclosure Policy

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by Joanie Boeckman. For questions about this blog, please contact Joanie @ ourivyfarmhouse@gmail.com.
This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.

The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.