The Rhythms of Rain (website address https://therhythmsofrain.com) is a blogging business owned by Damien and Kristin Cooney. The Rhythms of Rain is a part of Cooney Academic and Publishing Enterprises, LLC. Our blog currently uses, or potentially will use, revenue sources such as cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions, or other forms of compensation including affiliate relationships. Be assured that any compensation received will never affect the advertising content, topics, or posts made on The Rhythms of Rain site. All opinions expressed will be our own, and we will only partner with companies with whom we trust and agree and whose products/services we have actually used. All of the claims/opinions made on this blog should, of course, be independently verified, and readers may arrive at different conclusions or opinions. Should any conflicts of interest arise with any company, any said conflict will be immediately and clearly disclosed on the affected post(s).
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
– “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
– “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
– Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics code, Pinterest Pixel are used to collect data
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about Device Information.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How we use your personal information
We use the information you provide to us (email, name, etc.) for one or more of the following:
– To communicate with you
– When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, to provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
We never share your personal information with third parties.
This Site uses Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Additional information
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
We do not intentionally target people in the EU as readers of our blog or email list subscribers. However, we are still taking the following steps to protect the privacy of all of our reader and customers. We will continue to do our best to always consider the privacy of our valued readers and customers.
We offer an email subscription option on this Site. When you provide your email address to us for our regular email newsletter, we will add you to our email list (provided by Constant Contact), and you will occasionally be sent an email with a broad range of topics from homeschooling, to travel, to family life, and more. You can opt out of our email newsletter at any time by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email.
Additionally, if you are a European resident please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices or for questions/comments, please contact us by e-mail at cooney@therhythmsofrain.com.
This page has been updated on May 26, 2020.