This page covers all the boring, but important, stuff to let you know how this website collects, uses, protects or otherwise handles your data for the Five Metres Please website.
If you have any questions regarding these policies, please use the Contact page to get in touch or email [email protected]
Disclosure Policy
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me (Rhiannon Murrie). The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own, or on the odd occasion we have a guest author then the views published are their own (such as our Accredited Dietician Emily Currie). I am not compensated to provide opinions on products, services, websites or various other topics. I am also not a professional athlete or personal trainer and therefore any fitness advice given is performed at your own risk. The advice I give is based on my own experience. You should check with your doctor or physiotherapist before performing any exercises you are unsure about. This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.
This blog may accept forms of income through third party advertising, affiliate link sales or other forms of compensation. I will only ever recommend products to you through affiliate links that I use and love myself. An affiliate link is where, if you click on a link for a product from this website and buy a product, I receive a small commission from the company for sending you their way. This helps me to buy enough tea to maintain this site 🙂 I will only ever endorse products or services that I believe, based on my experience, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
Any compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network (Google AdSense). Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.
Cookie Policy
What Are Cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may mean certain parts of this site don’t work any more.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
When you submit data to through forms, such as those found on the Contact page or comments on blog posts, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.
The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow companies to see that I sent you their way and credit me with the appropriate compensation if you make a purchase with them.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and RSS feed will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Privacy Policy
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website or use certain other site features, in the following ways:
How do we protect your information?
Five Metres Please is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. We regularly use Malware Scanning. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
Do we use ‘cookies’?
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties, such as Google Analytics and Jetpack, who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may release information when required by law, or to enforce our site policies, protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Information on how you use this site (i.e. what pages you visit) is collected by Google Analytics so that I can deliver the best experience to you (so that I know what you most want to read!). This data is retained for 14 months, after which it is deleted.
If you sign up for the newsletter, this means that you will receive emails from me about when I put a new post up on the blog. I will receive your name and your email address. The newsletter signup and distribution processes are handled by MailChimp, which is compliant with GDPR data retention laws. If at any time you wish to stop receiving these emails, you can either click ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of the email, or send an email to [email protected] requesting that your information and data be deleted.
Third-party links
Google
Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users.
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.
California Online Privacy Protection Act
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
CAN SPAM Act
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