Privacy Policy

Welcome to Girl Prefer Money! This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our blog, interact with its content, or use any services offered through our blog.

Please read our Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.

If you do not agree with the terms of our Privacy Policy, please do not access or use our blog or any associated services.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Personal Information

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you interact with our blog or use our services. This information may include your name, email address, contact information, demographic information, and any other information you choose to provide.

1.2. Usage Information

When you visit our blog, we automatically collect certain information about your device and usage patterns. This information may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and the dates and times of your visits. We use various technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect this information.

1.3. Financial Information

In some cases, we may collect financial information, such as payment details, when you make a purchase through our blog or use our services. We use secure third-party payment processors, and we do not store your financial information on our servers.

2. How We Use Your Information

2.1. Personal Information

We may use the personal information you provide to us for the following purposes:

Respond to your inquiries or requests.

Provide you with information, updates, or news related to personal finance, money management, or other topics relevant to our blog.

Send you promotional materials or newsletters, but only if you have explicitly consented to receiving such communications.

Customize and enhance your experience on our blog and personalize the content based on your interests.

Administer contests, giveaways, or other promotional activities.

Conduct research and analysis to improve our blog’s content, functionality, and user experience.

Communicate with you about changes or updates to our blog, services, or policies.

2.2. Usage Information

The usage information we collect helps us understand how visitors use our blog, track trends, and improve our content and services. We may use this information to:

Analyze user behavior and preferences.
Monitor and optimize the performance of our blog.
Detect, prevent, and address technical issues or security vulnerabilities.
Generate aggregated and anonymized statistics for internal purposes or to share with third parties.

2.3. Financial Information

If you make a purchase through our blog or use our paid services, we will use your financial information solely for the purpose of processing your payment and fulfilling your order.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your information in the following circumstances:

To our affiliated companies, subsidiaries, vendors, or service providers who need access to the information to assist us in operating and improving our blog or providing services to you.
With your consent or at your direction.
In response to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process, or to comply with applicable laws or regulations.
To protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our business or assets.

4. Third-Party Links and Services

Our blog may contain links to third-party websites, services, or resources that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to our blog. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third parties before providing any personal information or using their websites, services, or resources.

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

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 here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect and store certain information about your interaction with our blog. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. These technologies help us analyze trends, administer the blog, track users’ movements, and gather demographic information.

You have the option to disable cookies through your browser settings, but please note that doing so may limit your ability to use certain features or services on our blog.

By consenting to our cookie usage, you authorize us and our partner third parties to deploy, retain, and retrieve some or all of the cookies detailed below on your computer.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are indispensable for website functionality, encompassing content display, user authentication, session validation, service response, and other essential operations. Most web browsers offer options to disable cookies. However, deactivating these may impair or restrict access to features on our site.

Performance Cookies

These cookies gather website usage data such as page views, traffic origins, user interests, content management, and other analytics.

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the site to recall user preferences, like language, usernames, and other personal settings, facilitating services like blog posting, audio playback, or video viewing.

Media Cookies

These cookies enhance website performance, offering specialized features and content. They may be deployed by third-party service providers or our company.

Advertising or Targeting Cookies

Primarily utilized by advertising entities, these cookies build a browsing profile to tailor advertisements on related websites to your interests. Disabling these cookies may reduce advertisement visibility.

Session Cookies

These cookies track user activities throughout a browsing session, aiding functions such as retaining shopping cart items or remembering changes across pages. Session cookies expire post-browsing and are not stored long-term.

Persistent Cookies

Stored between browsing sessions, persistent cookies remember user preferences or actions across sites, facilitating personalized experiences and targeted advertising.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about how users interact with our website. This information may include:

The pages visited on our website
The duration of each user’s session
The type of device used to access our website
General geographical location information

Purpose of Data Collection

We use the data collected through Google Analytics to analyze website traffic, improve user experience, and optimize our marketing strategies. This helps us better understand our users’ preferences and tailor our website content to their needs.

Data Sharing and Processing

We may share aggregated and anonymized data collected through Google Analytics with third-party service providers, advertisers, or marketing partners. However, we do not share personally identifiable information with third parties without your consent.

Opt-out Options

Users who prefer not to have their data collected by Google Analytics can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. This add-on prevents Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

Data Retention

The data collected by Google Analytics is retained for a period determined by Google’s data retention policies. We do not control the data retention period set by Google. However, we ensure that any data we receive from Google Analytics is securely stored and used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Google’s Privacy Practices

For more information about how Google handles data collected through Google Analytics, please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

6. Data Security

We take the security of your information seriously and implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect it from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

7. Children’s Privacy

Our blog is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided personal information to us, please contact us, and we will take appropriate action to remove the information from our systems.

8. Your Choices and Rights

You have certain choices and rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

– Access, update, or delete your personal information.

– Object to or restrict the processing of your personal information.

– Withdraw your consent to receive promotional materials or newsletters.

– Opt-out of certain data collection and tracking technologies.

To exercise these rights or for any privacy-related inquiries, please contact us using the information provided in the “Contact Us” section below.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or change this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on our blog. Your continued use of the blog after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at dina@girlprefermoney.com

By using our blog, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.