Privacy Policy

theMRSingLink Privacy Policy | May 24, 2018

theMRSingLink takes your privacy very seriously. This privacy policy informs you on what personal information is collected and how it is used. It is to help better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online.

PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.

Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with theMRSingLink. By visiting and browsing through this website, you agree that use of this site, along with any privacy disputes, is governed by this Privacy Policy. Because the WWW is an ever-changing medium, theMRSingLink may be required to update the Privacy Policy (through which will be reflected by the updated effective date at the top of this page). By continuing use of theMRSingLink, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.

Privacy Policy Index

Age Restriction (Children under the age of 18)

What personal data is collected?

When is personal data collected?

How is your personal data used?

Cookie Policy

Retention of personal data

How is your personal data is protected?

What are your rights? (Under the new GDPR)

Third-Party disclosure

CAN-SPAM Act

Fair Information Practices (Data Breaches)

Contact theMRSingLink

Children under the age of 18

theMRSingLink does not specifically market to children or young adults under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, you are not permitted to engage on theMRSingLink.

But when it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.

What personal information do we collect?

All web servers track basic information about their visitors, both personally identifiable information and non personally identifiable information.

Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that lets use know specifically who you are (such as name and email address). When you engage in specific activities on theMRSingLink, such as registering for our newsletter, submitting a comment for feedback on a particular post, we may ask for you to provide mandatory and voluntary information. If you do not provide the mandatory data (such as your consent), then you will not be able to engage in that particular site activity.

Personal information is collected when registering on our site, or submitting feedback via comment. As appropriate, you may be asked to enter…

your name
email address

…in order to aid in user experience, interests, and customer service. This information is voluntary (with your consent) and can be revoked and deleted by request.

Non Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that does not identify a specific individual. theMRSingLink gathers data about you based on where you visit on our site through several ways. This information provided to us is compiled and analyzed on both an anonymised and aggregated basis. This data includes the Web site’s Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) that you came from, the browser you are using, and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, which is an identifier for a computer or device on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (“TCP/IP”) network, like the World Wide Web (“WWW”). An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web, allowing users to communicate on the Internet.

When do we collect information?

We collect information from you when you:

browse through the site,
subscribe to a newsletter,
submit information via form (such as a comment/feedback form)

theMRSingLink uses multiple 3rd party services and plugins that collect, process and store personal data:

MailerLite: an email/newsletter service for sending newsletter updates via email. Users must give consent to the processing and storing of personal information upon submission, and always have the option to revoke that consent by unsubscribing (through the “unsubscribe” link on every email) or by directly contacting theMRSingLink ([email protected]). MailerLite’s privacy policy is available at https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy.

Google Analytics (& MonsterInsight, a GA 3rd Party Integration): for the use of tracking the number of visitors and on what pages based on information such as, but not limited to, traffic source, referring pages, browser and device details, and anonymised IP addresses (which is not considered personally indentifiable information). None of this information can personally identify individuals specifically. Users can opt out of having your activity made on the service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on. Google Analytic’s privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Wordfence: a security plugin specifically designed for detecting malicious code, malware and administrative login attempts. Wordfence’s privacy policy is available at https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/.

wpDiscuz: a comment system for when visitors leave feedback comments on the site. The plugin collects the voluntary data submitted in the comment in the form of cookies, but these cookies are set to be automatically deleted when visitors close the browser. Commentors also have the ability to update/change their comments (which is set to unlimited) as part of their rights to access and rectification, and can also delete their own comment using the “My Content and Settings” button located on top left side of the main comment form.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Sponsored Content: From time to time, theMRSingLink gets paid to work through sponsored work. These sponsored networks may use tracking pixels on certain sponsored posts in order to gather user engagement. Sponsored networks I currently do business with are Activate, Collective Bias (Social Fabric), Clever, Massive Sway, Influence Central and IZEA.

How do we use your information?

theMRSingLink may use the information we collect from you when you register, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, browse through the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
To allow us to better service you in responding to your email requests.
To provide feedback or reviews of experience and services

In compliance with the GDPR, any user or visitor who enters and submits personal information via forms embedded on theMRSingLink will be required to consent to the processing and storing of the given personal data, as well as having read and understood the Terms, Disclaimer and Privacy Policy.

theMRSingLink may also use information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the website
To respond to your comments or inquiries
To track and measure content effectiveness through analytics
To protect, investigate and deter against unauthorized/illegal activity

**Do we use “cookies“?**

Yes, this site and many other service-driven sites uses cookies, which are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website you visit, and are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. theMRSingLink may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience.

Examples of Cookies used:

Session Cookies. Session Cookies are used for the overall operations of our Service.
Preference Cookies. Preference Cookies are used to remember your preferences and various settings (such as in form fields).
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Advertising Cookies. Advertising Cookies are used to serve you display advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.

Some 3rd parties, such as Google Analytics and Google AdSense, use cookies to collect statistics in an anonymised and aggregated form. These statistics may be used to track users’ browsing habits and behavior flow on site pages – which allow theMRSingLink to cater to the effectiveness of its content. Please refer to the privacy policies of the listed services (above) for detailed information.

theMRSingLink uses cookies to:

Understand and save user’s preferences/interests based on previous or current site activity (Forms, advertising, dynamic page features, etc.). All in all, enabling theMRSingLink to provide you with an improved experience on the website.
Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer quality content and features in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

As a rule of thumb, cookies make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable non-functional cookies on theMRSingLink, but there are certain cookies that are required for the overall site to function and cannot operate without. The most effective way to disable cookies is within your browser settings. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

In regards to cookies installed by 3rd parties, users can manage their preferences and withdraw consent by opting out through the Network Advertising Opt-Out instructions, or by contacting the third party.

Warning, if users disable cookies:

If you turn cookies off it will turn off or alter some of the features of the site. It may or may not affect your browsing experience, but certain special features may be disabled or not work properly, which in turn may distort site content or diminish functionality.

Display Ads:

theMRSingLink may use 3rd party advertising companies to serve specific content and advertisements each time you visit theMRSingLink, through the use of cookies (as explained above). To know more about this practice, setting preferences and what your choices are in opting in or out of this data collection, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page.

Retargeting Ads:

Occasionally, theMRSingLink may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to promote our business. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on a person’s previous visits to the site.

Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here

Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

This website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers’; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
RevContent – You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
Centro, Inc. – You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
33Across, Inc. – You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
Conversant. LLC – You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.

Affiliate Links:

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. This means that if you click on and make a purchase through that link, theMRSingLink will be compensated by that third-party at no cost to you. If you click on a particular link with affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales from that company. In no way are you forced to click or purchase through any of the affiliate links listed throughout the site.

These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies, but are disclosed by theMRSingLink at the top of the page (if affiliate links are present on that given page). We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.

Retention of data

theMRSingLink will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in our privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (IE, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

How do we protect your information?

Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to ensure your visit to our site is as safe as possible.

We use regular Malware Scanning.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential (ie. theMRSingLink, Google, MailerLite, etc.).

In addition, all personal information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information. At this time, theMRSingLink does not permit, obtain or use sensitive information (such as financial or transaction details), but uses the SSL technology for user and administrative peace of mind.

**What are your rights? (Under the new EU GDPR)**

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.

Opt-out: You may opt-out of future email communications by consenting to the unsubscribe links in our emails. What this does is essentially removes your personal information from theMRSingLink email list. You may also request to be removed from our mailing list via email.

Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request.

Amend: You may contact us to amend or update your personal information.

Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data beyond “unsubscription“. Meaning, this request essentially permanently removes all personal data from the third-party mailing list database (theMRSingLink currently uses MailerLite as it’s third-party mailing list/newsletter).

Portability Clause: You are given the right to download your personal data, for which you had previously given consent, at no cost. That data can either be transmitted to a different controller or deleted upon request (forgotten – as mentioned above).

To make any of the above requests, please email theMRSingLink ([email protected]).

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

CAN SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law with sets of rules regarding commercial email. CAN SPAM establishes requirements for commercial emails, gives recipients the right to opt out of receiving emails, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

theMRSingLink collects Email addresses to:

To send information (monthly newsletters)
To send requested freebies/online printables

To be in accordance with CAN-SPAM, theMRSingLink agrees to the following:

Not to use a false or misleading subject or email address.
To identify the email as an advertisement in some reasonable way (that is clear to the recipient).
Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify you via email

Within 7 business days

We will notify the users via in-site notification

Within 7 business days

We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

How to contact theMRSingLink

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Privacy Policy Agreement, feel free to reach out to the following email address.

Carissa Link (theMRSingLink)

Email:

[email protected]

Address:

P.O. Box 781

Goldenrod, FL, 32733-0781