Welcome to BackYardHive!
No personal information is required to use our website. You can visit us and remain completely anonymous. This Privacy Policy is intended to help you better understand how we collect, use and store your personal information. If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will need your name and email address. This information is managed on our behalf by Mailchimp, who have their privacy policy here:https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ We have had zero complaints about this company; zero complaints about our mailing list being used for other purposes; and zero complaints about our mailing list being subject to security concerns. You can opt-out of the mailing list at any time, through the link provided in our emails, or here:https://mailchimp.com/contact/ BackYardHive, LLC found at https://backyardhive.com/ (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED? Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form. Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked. Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED We may use the information collected in the following ways: To operate and maintain the Website; To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings; To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts; To respond to your comments or inquiries; To provide you with user support; To track and measure advertising on the Website; To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting – which gives us insight into behaviour information relating to visitor age, gender and interests on an anonymous and aggregate level. This will help us to understand browsing behaviour to give you a better experience whilst visiting our sites.
MailChimp – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to MailChimp’ privacy policy for further information.
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update.
We use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
If you wish to purchase something from us, we use PayPal and Shopify as our payment processors. Through our agreement with PayPal and Shopify, if you purchase something from us, we will have access to your name, email, and physical address. That is all. PayPal or Shopify remits to us your funds, and we only see PayPal or Shopify as the depositor. We do not have access to any other financial information you may have on file with PayPal or Shopify. The privacy policy for PayPal can be found here: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full The privacy policy for Shopify can be found here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion. Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
ANONYMOUS DATA From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION If you leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible. Your email address will never be available publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website. You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account.
COOKIES The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein. Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable. Newsletters On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at https://backyardhive.com/pages/contact-us to be removed from our mailing list. Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to https://backyardhive.com/pages/contact-us Amend – You may contact us at https://backyardhive.com/pages/contact-us to amend or update your personal information. Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to https://backyardhive.com/pages/contact-us Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN’S INFORMATION BackYardHive, LLC does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at https://backyardhive.com/pages/contact-us and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records. Formal Disclosure Policy About Advertising & Affiliate Relationships This blog may accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. We always give honest opinions based on our experiences on the products or topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
CONTACT INFORMATION At any time, please contact us at https://backyardhive.com/pages/contact-us for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
FURTHER INFORMATION Of course, online privacy and information security is an evolving issue. To help with country regulations governing your online privacy, we are providing useful links to other sources which you may find helpful:
Overview of the GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation Data Protection Act 1998 Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 The Guide to the PECR 2003
United States: US Department of State
Canada: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
Last Updated September 21, 2018
