Privacy Policy

 

Black Girl with a Backpack is located in Nashville, TN. You can contact us at contact@blackgirlwithabackpack.com. It is Black Girl with a Backpack’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.blackgirlwithabackpack.com (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://www.blackgirlwithabackpack.com”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources. This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms of Use posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

What  data we collect and why we collect it

 

Website Visitors

Black Girl with a Backpack collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Black Girl with a Backpack’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Black Girl with a Backpack may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website. Black Girl with a Backpack also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.blackgirlwithabackpack.com blog posts. Black Girl with a Backpack only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

 

Aggregated Statistics

Black Girl with a Backpack may use Google Analytics to collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. View details of the Google Analytics privacy policy here. Black Girl with a Backpack may provide this information to others. However, Black Girl with a Backpack does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

 

WordPress.com Stats

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.

Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.

 

Cookies:

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Black Girl with a Backpack uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Black Girl with a Backpack uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of https://www.blackgirlwithabackpack.com, and their website access preferences. Black Girl with a Backpack visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our websites, with the drawback that certain features of Black Girl with a Backpack’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Black Girl with a Backpack’s use of cookies.

 

Advertisements:

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Black Girl with a Backpack and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

 

Links To External Sites:

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

Articles on this site may also 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

 

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information:

Certain visitors to Black Girl with a Backpack’s websites choose to interact with Black Girl with a Backpack in ways that require Black Girl with a Backpack to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Black Girl with a Backpack gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for our newsletter at https://www.blackgirlwithabackpack.com to provide their name and email address. Other services that may require personally-identifying information are:

Sharing

Data Used: When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet is active on the site), the following information is used: sharing party’s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed. Additionally, if reCAPTCHA (by Google) is enabled by the site owner, the sharing party’s IP address will be shared with that service. You can find Google’s privacy policy here.

 

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.

 

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Black Girl with a Backpack may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Black Girl with a Backpack’s sole discretion. Black Girl with a Backpack encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of any changes.

 

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.