Privacy Policy

Collected Information

We collect personal identification information that you voluntarily provide to our site, such as your name and email address. This may occur when you leave a comment, subscribe to a newsletter, or submit a contact form.

You can visit our site anonymously, and we only collect personal information if you choose to provide it. However, opting not to share this information may limit your ability to participate in certain site-related activities.

We use cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser, to enhance your experience on our site. Cookies can be session-based, which expire when you close your browser, or persistent, which remain until you delete them. These cookies help us provide a more personalized experience.

You can set your web browser to refuse cookies or alert you when they are being sent, but this may affect the functionality of some parts of the site.

Additionally, we automatically gather non-personal identification information about you and the device you use to access our site. This includes logging your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages viewed, and the dates and times of your visits. We also track actions you take on the site, such as links clicked.

We utilize the information we collect to ensure the efficient operation and maintenance of our website, including performing regular updates and addressing technical issues.

We also use it to implement measures to protect the site from unauthorized access and illegal activities by conducting thorough investigations and employing preventive strategies. Additionally, the information is used to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising efforts to enhance user engagement.

The Site may engage third-party service providers to support various functions of the Site. The use of your personal information by these third-party service providers is governed by their respective privacy policies. Currently, the Site utilizes the following third-party service providers like Google Analytics and WordPress.

Google Analytics collects various types of data to help website owners understand how visitors interact with their sites. Here’s a summary of the key points:

Information Collected:

1. User Data (anonymous data): This includes IP addresses, user identifiers (like User-ID), and advertising identifiers (such as DoubleClick cookies, Advertising IDs, and Apple’s Identifier for Advertisers).
2. Event Data: Information about user interactions on the site, such as page views, button clicks, and other user activities.
3. Demographic Data: Age, gender, and interests, if available.

Information Retention:

• Default Retention Period: For Google Analytics 4 (GA4), the default retention period is 2 months, but it can be extended to 14 months.
• Maximum Retention: For certain data, such as Google Signals data, the maximum retention period is 50 months maximum.

When someone comments on this Site, WordPress stores their email address, name, and IP address. Here’s how it works:

1. Email Address and Name: These are stored in the WordPress database along with the comment.
2. IP Address: WordPress also logs the IP address of the commenter. This is primarily used for spam detection and security purposes.

Your email addresses and other personal information will not be sold, distributed, or revealed without your consent, except when mandated by law.

However, anonymous data, like aggregated demographic information, which is not linked to any personal identification details, may be used by us. This data does not personally identify you. We may share such anonymous data with third parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples include the demographic location of our readers and the number of views on specific pages of our Site.

Affiliate Programs

Affiliate marketing may be conducted on the Site through the use of tracking links. When you click on an affiliate link, a cookie will be added to your browser to monitor sales for commission purposes. The Site has no control over and is not responsible for the content, privacy policies, or practices of third-party sites or services.

Intellectual Property

All content, features, and functionality on this Site, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, icons, images, audio clips, video clips, data compilations, and software, are the exclusive property of Explore toThrive or its licensors and are protected by international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our Site, except as follows:

• Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials.
• You may store files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement purposes.
• You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the Site for your own personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, publication, or distribution.

You must not:

• Modify copies of any materials from this Site.
• Use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences, or any graphics separately from the accompanying text.
• Delete or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from this Site.

If you wish to make any use of material on the Site other than that set out in this section, please address your request to: eljon [at] exploretothrive [dot] com.

Embedded Content

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.

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.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this policy, the practices of this site, or your interactions with this site, please contact us at: eljon [at] exploretothrive [dot] com.