Privacy Policy

Who we are

Welcome to our site! We are Daniel and Lindsay Madsen. We share about our life on our farm, Misty Acres. Our website address is: https://lifeonmistyacres.com. All opinions and suggestions are our own. We only promote products that we feel are quality items. We are not experts at anything but try to do the best that we can and research things as much as we can. Use your best judgment when you are attempting to do things that we show you. We are not responsible for any accidents or mishaps that may happen if you try to attempt the things we show. All photos are considered the property of our website, unless stated otherwise. You are not allowed to copy or save images for personal use. If you would like to use a post or picture on our site, please contacting us through our Contact Page.

Affiliate Programs

We are participants in the Amazon Affiliate Program. They may collect data from you if you click on our links. If you make a purchase through the amazon affiliate link, we will receive a portion of the purchase. We only add affiliate links for products we know and trust. If a product that we know is not on there, we may put a link to a similar product. This is intended to help you. We are not responsible for the product itself. Please, use your best judgement and research on your own to see if the item is good for you.

We also may direct you to other websites from our link. We are not responsible for what they have on their site. If you have questions or comments about that site, please contact them.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

We us Akismet anti-spam service. They may collect your IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL if you 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.

Contact forms

We do have a contact form on our site that will allow you to ask us questions or chat with us. We collect your name and e-mail address to continue correspondence with you. This information will not be sold and is only used for customer service purposes. You can find our Contact Form here.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help track our website traffic and to research the types of articles that are most popular. You can find more information on what Google Analytics Privacy & Terms here.

Who we share your data with

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).

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 ) 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. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights do you have over your data

If you 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.