Privacy Policy for Troll Dolls Guide
Here at Troll Dolls Guide, we take the privacy of our visitors very seriously. This Privacy Policy sets out how Troll Dolls Guide uses and protects personal information you may give while visiting https://trolldollsguide.com (Our Site).
We want you to be comfortable that when you provide data to us, it will be used fairly and securely, in accordance with this Privacy Policy outlined below. This Policy outlines the data collected by Troll Dolls Guide and how it will be used. By visiting Our Site, in all/any of it’s forms, you are deemed to have accepted the terms of our Privacy Policy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By visiting and using the Site, you agree that your use of my Site, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy. Because the Web is a growing and evolving space, I may need to change my Privacy Policy at some point in the future, in which case I’ll post the changes to this Privacy Policy on this website and update the Effective Date of the policy to reflect the date of the changes. If you do not agree with the terms of our Privacy Policy you should stop browsing Our Site immediately.
Subscribers / Email List
This website maintains an email mailing list to those who have chosen to subscribe to our newsletter, distributed via MailChimp. This newsletter will contain brief summaries of our most recent posts, ensuring you don’t miss any content you might enjoy. Should you wish to read the posts in full, you can then click through to Our Site.
The email addresses collated when users opt in and subscribe are used for the purpose of this RSS based newsletter, as well as occasional updates or promotional content. Your email address from our mailing list will NEVER be passed on to third parties and you are free to unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of your emails.
Giveaways
Troll Dolls Guide may host giveaways and competitions, and are subject to our giveaway terms and conditions. In order to fulfill delivery of the prize, we will contact winners via email and/or social media and ask for permission to collect personal data – in particular the winner’s full name, delivery address and contact telephone number. This information will be passed on via email to the brand and/or PR agency for whom Troll Doll Guide is hosting the giveaway.
Troll Dolls Guide cannot be held responsible for your data once it has been passed on to the brand / Pr agency for prize fulfillment, however these companies are expected to have similar retention policies to Our Site in accordance with GDPR.
How I collect and Use Information
At Troll Dolls Guide we use Google Analytics and other WordPress plugins to monitor the use of our website, it’s traffic, most popular posts and click through and make improvements accordingly.
Google Analytics allows Troll Dolls Guide to receive anonymous data regarding reader’s gender, age, location and interests, as well as keyword searches to determine how they found our content. This data is in presented in an anonymous and non-identifiable format. This website uses Google Analytics Advertising Features. Google Analytics collects data about your traffic via Google advertising cookies and identifiers, in addition to data collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation. You can opt-out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features by clicking here and enabling the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser Add On.
What we do with your data
We use the data collected to make improvements to Our Site, ensure it remains user friendly and keeps providing the information you want to see. If you chose to subscribe to Our site, you may receive our newsletter, as well as periodic emails about information we feel will be of interest. We do not pass any of your data on to third parties except in the extremely rare event that we are required by law to do so.
We occasionally host 3rd party adverts, banner ads and side banners which may have cookies placed by the advertiser, and may use ad service vendors including Google Adsense to present advertisements on our site. These adverts may use cookies, web beacons or similar to tailor adverts to you. These cookies may collate data including your browser type, web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed and other click stream data. Troll Dolls Guide cannot be held liable for third party cookies.
Affiliate Links
The Site also includes links to websites I recommend or work with on a collaborative basis, and provides access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies I do not control. Some of the links I provide are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item connected to that link, I will receive an affiliate commission at no cost you. When you access another website or purchase third-party products or services through the Site, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting, or the provider of such products or services.
Links to third-party web sites or services are not owned or controlled by myself.
I have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that this website and its owner shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.
Content
All the information on this site is exclusively owned by me, and may not be copied, reproduced, distributed or shared in a way in which it would suggest that it belongs to anyone other than myself. Quotes may be extracted from content on this site in the event that explicit permission is sought from me, and adequate credit is displayed.
Cookies
Troll Dolls Guide uses cookies on our site to analyze our traffic. You will be asked for your consent to use cookies on a pop up on the bottom of the screen upon visiting Our Site. If you agree, the cookie file analyses your web traffic and allows web applications to respond to your likes needs and dislikes by tracking your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies specifically, in order to identify which pages of our site are visited most regularly. This helps us collate data about our site’s traffic and use this information of statistical purposes. A cookie does not give us access to your computer and does present us with any additional personal information other than what you specifically chose to share with us.
Should you prefer not to allow cookies, you can decline all non-essential cookies using the pop up which appears on Our Site. This however, may prevent you from having the full site experience.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Comments
Troll Dolls Guide loves hearing our readers views and feedback, and as such, Our Site allows comments to be added beneath our posts. The information collected here, which includes names, email addresses and/or website URL’s will not be added to our mailing list and will not be passed on to third parties.
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.
Children’s Information
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
www.trolldollsguide.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that www.tolldollsguide.com has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact us button in the menu) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there.
This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.
Update
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: January 2, 2020.