Privacy Policy

Protecting Your Information

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to porchdaydreamer.com and Porch Daydreamer, LLC governing all data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Porch Daydreamer, LLC and Porch Daydreamer® include porchdaydreamer.com.

The Porch Daydreamer website is a Home & Garden and Personal Blog site. By using the Porch Daydreamer website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it…

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Porch Daydreamer may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

– First and Last Name

– E-mail Address

Porch Daydreamer may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

– Age

– Gender

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) signing up for an email newsletter (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) downloading free content (d) sending us an email message; on our Site.

We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us.

Contact forms

When you sign up for our email newsletter, we are recording and storing the information you provide such as: First name, last name, and email address. This information is only used to send the information you signed up to receive. If you download a free guide, you will be automatically enrolled in our weekly email newsletter.

Don’t want to hear from us weekly? Easily unsubscribed from the newsletter by scrolling to the bottom of the email and click the link. We will be sorry to see you go, but understand if our content isn’t what you want in your inbox!

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.

If you click the boxes to follow comments or be notified by email, you may also be enrolled in our email newsletter. If you did this in error, you can easily unsubscribe at the bottom of the first email you receive.

Cookies

By visiting our web site, you are consenting to the use of cookies. You may opt out using the pop-up form when entering the site for the first time.

Cookies are also used to help the site load faster on your device by storing data on your hard drive. Please follow either the web browser or device settings to clear your browsing history and any cookies collected while online.

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.

You can always use your browser’s ‘private’ or ‘incognito’ mode to browse websites anonymously.

MEDIAVINE PROGRAMMATIC ADVERTISING (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please Mediavine Partners.

Web Beacons

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. Porch Daydreamer MailChimp (to sing up for and deliver our emails) forms that employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs). Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages or in emails.

We use clear gifs or pixels in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients and which website links have been clicked. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of communications and our marketing campaigns. We tie the information gathered by clear gifs in emails to our customers’ Personal Information.

Additional information on consumer tracking can be found on the FTC site by clicking here.

If at any time you would like copy of your porchdaydreamer.com stored data or would like it have it deleted complete contact us by clicking here. Fill in the contact form at the bottom of the page and in the SUBJECT line use “Remove Data”. Please allow 30 days for the process to be completed.

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.

Additional information on consumer tracking can be found on the FTC site by clicking here.

Porch Daydreamer does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Your personal data is shared only as needed as part of the day to day maintenance of the porchdaydreamer.com website. The only people/organizations that are granted access to personal data are:

Employees of Porch Daydreamer for use in maintaining web functionality and for email communications
Our web hosting technology suppliers (currently Iridium) who provide the physical server infrastructures that our website(s) operate on.
Our cloud storage and technology supplier (currently Updraft Plus and Amazon S3) whose services we use for secure backup storage.

We have signed Data Privacy Agreements with all of the 3rd party technology suppliers above which detail our respective responsibilities for data security.

Porch Daydreamer may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Porch Daydreamer or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Porch Daydreamer; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Porch Daydreamer, or the public.

WEBSITE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics to better understand what content people like on our website and to see how people are arriving on our website.

When people visit our site, information about their visit (such as which pages they look at, how long they spend on the site and so on) is sent in an anonymous form to Google Analytics (which is controlled by Google).

The data contains information about anyone who uses our website from your computer, and there is no way to identify individuals from the data.

We ensure that no personally identifiable information is ever contained within the data sent to our analytics providers, and we also perform a process which partially obscures your IP address information.

As analytics information is not personal data, we do not specifically ask for your prior consent. All collected data will be automatically deleted via Google Analytics after 14 months of acquisition.

Security of your Personal Information

Porch Daydreamer secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Porch Daydreamer uses the following methods for this purpose:

– SSL Protocol

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Porch Daydreamer may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Porch Daydreamer or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Porch Daydreamer, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the unsubscribe at the bottom of the email.

You agree that before changing your mobile number or transferring your mobile number to another individual, you will either reply “STOP” from the original number or notify us of your old number at [email protected]. The duty to inform us based on the above events is a condition of using this service to receive messages.

SMS Messaging

When you opt-in to the service, we will send you a message to confirm your signup.

By opting into messages, you agree to receive recurring automated marketing and informational text messages from Tracey at Porch Daydreamer. Automated messages may be sent using an automatic telephone dialing system to the mobile telephone number you provided when signing up or any other number that you designate.

Message frequency varies, and additional mobile messages may be sent periodically based on your interaction with Porch Daydreamer. Tracey reserves the right to alter the frequency of messages sent at any time to increase or decrease the total number of sent messages. Tracey also reserves the right to change the short code or phone number where messages are sent.

Message and data rates may apply. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider. Your wireless provider is not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

Your consent to receive marketing messages is not a condition of purchase.

Carriers

Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

Cancellation

You can cancel any time by texting “STOP”. After you send the SMS message “STOP”, we will send you a message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed and no more messages will be sent. If you would like to receive messages from Tracey again, just sign up as you did the first time and Tracey will start sending messages to you again.

Info

Text “HELP” at any time and we will respond with instructions on how to unsubscribe. For support regarding our services, email us at [email protected].

Transfer of Number

Messaging Terms Changes

We reserve the right to change or terminate our messaging program at any time. We also reserve the right to update these Messaging Terms at any time. Such changes will be effective immediately upon posting. Your continued enrollm

Changes to this Statement

Porch Daydreamer reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information
Porch Daydreamer welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Porch Daydreamer has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Porch Daydreamer at:

Email Address:
[email protected]

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Effective as of January 16, 2018.

Last Update: 03/13/24