Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Disclosure

The Feral Mama (www.theferalmama.com) (“website” “site”) is governed by the following Privacy Policy.

 

The Feral Mama/ Lori Oden  (“website” “site”, “company”, “I”, “we” or “us” “our”) is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information. The terms, “you” and “your” refers to anyone who uses, visits, views, or interacts with this website. This privacy policy describes information that may be collected from you on theferalmama.com and how it may be used. This Privacy Policy only applies to this website, theferalmama.com. 

 

By visiting and using this website and any of our linked social media platforms, you accept and agree to this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy or any of the terms and conditions on this site. 

 

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as, but not limited to your name, username, or email address. You may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, submitting a contact form, or other means not listed. - You have the option to opt-out of any email subscriptions or newsletters as stated below. 

Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use a third-party software through the site, they may transfer information to us.

Automatically-Collected Information: Our site, like most sites automatically collects certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. When you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.

Cookies: The website may use cookies (session and persistent) to facilitate your use of the website. Cookies are files with small amounts of data including an anonymous unique identifier that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive when you are viewing the website. Just like other websites, we automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information including but not limited to your IP address, geographic location, language preference, date and time of visitors.

​Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

Advertising: Some advertisers used on this website may occasionally use cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on this website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies. The Feral Mama shall not be held liable to any incidents in connection to advertising by third party sites. 

 

All information collected by this site is only collected to better serve you while visiting this website.  We may use this information to:

• Operate or maintain the website and provide user friendly changes or updates

• To create your account, verify you as a user of the account, and customize the Website for your account

• To send you promotional information such as newsletters. Each promotional email will include information to opt-out of future communication and promotional emails. 

•  To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts

• To respond to comments or inquiries

• To provide user support

•  To track and measure advertising on the Website

• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity

 

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may include, offer or advertise third party links, products or services on the website. Once you click on a third party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions. Each of these third parties have their own Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We are not responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties and you should contact them directly regarding their Privacy Policy or Terms of Use. You also agree to use any third party websites solely at your risk. We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion. 

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

 

DISPLAY ADS

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

RETARGETING ADS

At times, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

 

AFFILIATE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION 

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. This website contains affiliate links and I earn a commission if you make a purchase through one of these links, at no cost to you. 

 

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.  To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation. Your email address will never be available publicly, unless you choose to use your email address as your username.  

You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, Google Account, or other social media accounts by logging in or signing up for an account through one of these social media platforms. If so, users may see your username, avatar, profile description, pictures, and website information.

 

NEWSLETTERS

On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. These pixels are embedded in emails and allow us to measure the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. This allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters and posts to the interests of the user. This information will not be passed on to third parties.

 

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us via email to be removed from our mailing list.

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

Amend – You may contact us via email to amend or update your personal information.

Erase (forget) – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to erase personal data via email.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

GDPR VISITOR RIGHTS

Under the GDPR, if you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain rights and information listed below.

We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of:

1. You ask us to delete the information by sending a request to us via email. Please note that such requests may result in you no longer being able to access paid or free content previously provided to you.

2. Our decision to cease using our existing data providers.

3. The Company decides to no longer be in business or continue to offer the services.

4. The data is no longer needed to provide you service, is too costly to maintain further retention, or the Company finds it outdated.

You have the right to request access to your data that we store and have the ability to access your personal data.

You have the right to either rectify or erase your personal data. You have the right to verify the accuracy of your personal data and have it corrected or removed completely.

You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data. When you restrict the processing of your data, we can store your data but cannot process it further.

You have the right to object to the processing of your data in certain circumstances including but not limited to direct marketing, profiling, scientific or historical research purposes, statistical purposes, automated decision making and profiling and tasks based on legitimate interests or in the public interest/exercise of official authority.

You have the right to the portability of your data. You have the right to request your personal data from us, receive it and transfer it to another controller.

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. If you have provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We require only the information that is reasonably necessary to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA COMPLIANCE)

If you reside in California, you are entitled to additional rights under California law and we ensure compliance with the CCPA. Here are your rights:

1. You have the right to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed to third parties.

2. You have the right to say no to the sale of your personal information.

3. You also have the right to access your personal information, which we will provide within 30 days of such request.

4. You have the right to know what personal information is collected from you and how it is used, which we explained in this Privacy Policy

5. You have the right to have your personal information deleted

6. You have the right to equal service, price and no discrimination

7. You have the right to data portability and right to request your personal information and use it for your own purposes

Pursuant to California’s “Shine the Light Act,” you are permitted to request information about the manner in which we share certain categories of information with third parties for their marketing use. We may disclose your personal information to our affiliates or other related third parties such as service providers, vendors for their use in marketing to you, so we can provide the products and/or services offered on this website to you. When we disclose such information, your personal information is still kept confidential between us and that third party site or vendor. It is not used for any other purpose that’s not permitted under the laws.

Be advised - we DO NOT SELL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION to third parties, have never sold your personal information, and we also do not intend to sell your personal information in the future.

Under the CCPA, you still have the right to opt-out of such sales and send us a “do not sell my information” request. If you would like to exercise any of your rights under California law, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by sending us an email. Only you as the person registered with the California Secretary of State can make such verifiable consumer requests related to your personal information or someone you authorize to act on your behalf.

Your verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to verify that you are the person you are claiming to be or that you are the authorized representative of such person about whom we had collected personal information. You must describe your request with enough details such as your first and last name, address and your country that allow us to properly understand the request and respond to it. Please note we cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information unless we first verify your identity or authority to make such a request and confirm that the personal information relates to you. We will make all attempts to respond to your request within 30 days of receipt.

This privacy notice for California residents supplements the information included in the previous sections of this privacy policy. California and Delaware law also requires us to state whether we honor “Do Not Track” settings in your browser regarding targeted advertising and we do not monitor or respond to Do Not Track browser requests.

 

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to this Website. This includes, but is not limited to your social security number, telephone number, address,  information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. 

When you make a credit card purchase or purchase through any means on the website, you will be directed to a third party vendor to complete the transaction. Any information you provide during the checkout process is not stored on our website, but may be provided to the third party vendor that completes the purchase transaction. For any information or issues regarding credit card transactions, please contact the third party site directly. 

By using this website, you agree to hold us harmless for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties. You also agree that we cannot be held responsible for any disclosure of your information through our website without our knowledge and consent. 

 

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We respect the privacy of all/any children. The term “child” means an individual under the age of 18. All information and content on this website is intended for individuals over the age of 18. Children under the age of 16 are prohibited from using this website. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from children under the age of 16 without prior parental/guardian consent. If you believe personal information is collected from someone under the age of 16 without parental or guardian consent, then please contact us immediately to have that information removed/deleted.

 

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy is effective as of March 20, 2023. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes made are effective upon publishing of the new terms. Your continued use of The Feral Mama and our services following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept such changes.

 

QUESTIONS RELATED TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

For any questions related to this Privacy Policy or any other terms of this site please contact us at Theferalmama@gmai.com 

 

DISCLOSURE AND TERMS OF USE

This disclosure is valid as of March 20, 2023 and  covers all social channels owned/and or managed by The Feral Mama.  The Feral Mama may accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. Content or post may not always be individually identified as paid or sponsored content. Although I may be compensated for opinions on products or services I will always provide my honest opinion, experience, or finding on these products or services. The views and opinions in this blog and any of my posts are purely my own and are not influenced based on compensation. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question. 

 

This is a personal blog with information pertaining to my own thoughts and opinions. No information in this blog or any of my linked social media channels should be interpreted as medical, legal, or professional advice. Your choice to read this information is at your own risk and free will. Lori Oden/ The Feral Mama (“I”) may not be held liable for any risk or harm to oneself or others resulting from a reader's interpretation of information on this site, any linked social media platforms, or third party sites. Printables (free or paid) found on this site and any other downloadable materials are downloaded at the users own risk. Lori Oden/The Feral Mama shall not be liable for any damages resulting from the use of information or downloads on this site. All printables are for personal use only and may not be used for any commercial purposes including giveaways or printing files to sell. None of my printables may be linked, emailed, or distributed without my written consent. Except when permitted no portion of this website or its content may be duplicated, copied, reproduced without the written consent of Lori Oden/ The Feral Mama. These terms apply to all users or contributors to this site. As a user or contributor of this site you agree to abide by these terms as well as all local, state, federal, and international laws and regulations. Lori Oden/ The Feral Mama reserves the right to deny access to anyone who is not in compliance with these terms or local, state, federal, and international laws. Lori Oden/The Feral Mama shall not have any liability resulting from purchases of goods/ services from this site or any third-party linked site based on information provided on this site including but not limited to direct or indirect consequential or punitive damages, personal injury, emotional distress, pain and suffering, loss of business, profits, or revenue, loss of savings or business.. Changes to these terms and any information displayed on this site may be corrected or omitted at any time without notice. You are encouraged to check back for any changes that may occur to our terms, conditions, or policies.  Any changes made are effective upon publishing, even if you have not viewed the changes. By visiting this website you agree to all terms and conditions including their updates.