Effective Date: January 31, 2024
Privacy and Cookies Policy
THIS COOKIES POLICY APPLIES TO OUR WEBSITES AND PLATFORMS
Cookies
This Policy describes how BALANSTONE LLC and its affiliates (“BALANSTONE”, “we”, or “us”) uses cookies on our websites and platforms (each a “Site”). To make our Site(s) work properly, we sometimes place small data files (called cookies) on your device.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the website or browse from one page to another.
To learn more about cookies, please visit aboutcookies.org.
What types of cookies do we use?
We use two types of cookies on the Site(s): session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie is a temporary cookie that remains on your device until you leave the Site(s). Session cookies are essential to make our Site(s) work correctly, as they enable you to move around our Site(s) and use our features. A persistent cookie remains on your device for much longer, or until you manually delete it (how long the cookie remains on your device will depend on the duration or “lifetime” of the specific cookie and your browser settings). Persistent cookies help us recognize you as a return user of our Site(s) so it’s easier and convenient to return to and interact with our Site(s). In addition, persistent cookies also help us recognize and record information about your web browsing habits during the lifetime of the persistent cookie.
What are cookies used for?
We use cookies on our Site(s) to personalize your experience on the Site(s) and to make your future activities and experience on our Site(s) more efficient. We also use cookies to track, compile and analyze usage, navigational and other statistical information that allow us to understand how people use our Site(s), and to help us improve the structure and content of the Site(s). The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally.
What third-party cookies do we use?
We may also work with third-party service providers who may set cookies on our Site(s). These third-party service providers help us track and analyze your use of our Site(s) and to optimize our Site(s) and improve your experience. These third-party service providers are responsible for the cookies they set on our Site(s). If you want further information please go to the website for the relevant third-party service provider. For additional information regarding Google Analytics, please visit: analytics.google.com.
How to control cookies?
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish, for details see analytics.google.com. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our Site(s) and functionalities may not work.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.balanstone.com.
Comments
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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Subscription forms
If you submit a subscription form on our site you will be opting in for us to save your name, email address and other relevant information.
These subscriptions are used to notify you about related content, discounts & other special offers.
You can opt our or unsubscribe at any time in the future by clicking link in the bottom of any email.
Cookies
| Cookie Name | Usage | Time |
|---|---|---|
| pum-3345 | Cookie used to prevent popup from displaying repeatedly. | 1 month |
We use anonymous cookies to prevent users from seeing the same popup repetitively in an attempt to make our users experience more pleasant while still delivering time sensitive messaging.
Analytics
How long we retain your data
Subscriber information is retained in the local database indefinitely for analytic tracking purposes and for future export.
Data will be exported or removed upon users request via the existing Exporter or Eraser.
If syncing data to a 3rd party service (for example Mailchimp), data is retained there until unsubscribed or deleted.
Where we send your data
Popup Maker does not send any user data outside of your site by default.
If you have extended our subscription forms to send data to a 3rd party service such as Mailchimp, user info may be passed to these external services. These services may be located abroad.