Who we are
Effective Date: 06/08/2025
Data Controller Contact Information
Tiffany Huckabay
8900 Barber St.
Sherwood, AR 72120
theblossomingmom15@gmail.com
This document displays the privacy policy of our website address: https://theblossomingmom.org.
Welcome to The Blossoming Mom Blog. Your privacy is important to us.
Our Privacy Policy explains what personal and non personal data we may collect, how we collect, how it may be shared, and how you have control over what data you want shared. This notice also explains your legal rights in respect to your data in accordance with the General Data Regulation (GDPR) and other privacy laws.
By using this Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not access the Site.
Information We Collect
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, such as:
>Contact Information: Your name and email address when you subscribe to our blog, contact us, or comment on a post.
>Usage Data: Information automatically collected when you visit our Site, including you IP address, browser type, time spent, referring URLs (via analytics and advertising), pages viewed, and the date/time of your visit.
>Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Used to enhance your experience and serve relevant ads. (See Google Adsense and Cookies).
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.
Legal Bases for Processing
We collect and process personal data under these GDPR legal bases:
>Consent: When you opt-in to our newsletter or cookies.
>Legitimate Interests: For analytics, website improvement, and preventing fraud.
>Legal Obligations: When required by law.
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.
Google Adsense and Cookies
We use Google Adsense to serve advertisements. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads based on your visit to our Site and other websites.
>Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
>You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
There is also a consent form once you enter the Site that allows to you to consent/ manage options on your data collected by Google.
Learn more about how Google uses data when you use partner sites:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
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/ Third-Party Services
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.
We may use third-party services such as analytics tools, email services, or advertising platforms that collect, monitor, and analyze data. These third parties have their own privacy policies.
Use of Your Information
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
We use the information we collect to:
>Operate and maintain the Site.
>Send you emails or respond to your comments or inquiries.
>Monitor and analyze usage to improve website performance using analytics tools.
>Comply with legal obligations.
>Display relevant advertising via Google Adsense.
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.
If you are located in the EU or UK,
You may have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws. The following shows what rights you may have:
You have the right to be informed of personal data that may be collected from you and how it is processed.
You have the right to access your data and the right to get confirmation of your data being processed.
You have the right to correct your personal data if there are inaccuracies or incomplete information.
You have the right to request that your data be deleted if you feel that there is no reason for us to continue processing it.
You have the right to block use of personal data. When you decide to block the use of your personal data, we are permitted to store the data but not process it any farther.
You have the right to request your data for your own personal use. Once you request the data, it will be provided to you within a 30 day period. Please use our contact information located at the beginning of this policy to send your requests to.
You have the right to object the use of your personal data for the following reasons:
>The data was processed based on interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/ exercise of an official authority (including profiling)
>Direct Marketing (profiling included)
>Processing for scientific/ historical research purposes
>Rights related to automated decision-making and profiling.
You have the right to not be the subject to a decision based only on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or legitimately affects you.
You have the right to make a complaint to supervisory authorities if your data has not been processed in compliance to the GDPR. If supervisory authorities fail to address your complaint the right way, you may have rights to a judicial remedy.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), or California, please contact us at theblossomingmom15@gmail.com to exercise your rights under the GDPR or CCPA.
Data Retention
We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, or to comply with legal obligations.
Data Transfers
Data may be transferred outside the EU (e.g., to the US,) if using services like Google or Mailchimp. We ensure appropriate safeguards (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses) are in place.
Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your information, but please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Generally, you control how much data you give to us when using our website.
Changes to this Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will be posted on this page with the updated effective date.
