Privacy Policy 

At Mentally Loud, we respect and value your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines the ways in which we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you access and use our website located at www.mentallyloud.com (the “Website”).  

Information We Collect 

  • We may collect personal information when you access or use our Website, including: 
  • Your name, email address, and other contact information you provide when you subscribe to our newsletter or contact us through our Website. 
  • Your IP address, browser type, and device type when you access our Website. 
  • Information about your use of our Website, including pages visited, links clicked, and other interactions with our Website.  
  • We collect information about you during the form submission process on our WordPress website.
  • While you visit our site, we’ll track:
    • Form Fields Data: Forms Fields data includes the available field types when creating a form. We’ll use this to, for example, collect informations like Name, Email and other available fields.
    • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping. Also, for reducing fraudulent activities and prevent identity theft while placing orders
    • Transaction Details: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, provide & regulate subscription packs that you bought and keep track of your payment details for subscription packs!
  • We’ll also use cookies to keep track of form elements while you’re browsing our site.

Who on our team has access

  • Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, Administrators and Editors and any body else who has permission can access:
    • Form submission information and other details related to it
    • Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
  • Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill transactions and support you.

How We Use Your Information 

  • We may use your personal information to: 
  • Provide and improve our Website and services. 
  • Communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries and provide you with updates about our Website. 
  • Analyze and understand how our Website is being used and to develop new features and functionality. 
  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations.  

How We Share Your Information 

  • We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances: 
  • With your consent. 
  • With service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as email delivery, data analysis, and website hosting. 
  • To comply with legal and regulatory obligations or requests, including to respond to a subpoena, court order, or government inquiry. 
  • In connection with a merger, acquisition, or other business transaction.  

Cookies and Similar Technologies 

  • We may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your use of our Website.  
  • Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you access our Website.  
  • We may use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until they expire, or you delete them).  

Security 

  • We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.  

Children’s Privacy 

  • Our Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.  

Changes to this Privacy Policy 

  • We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email (if you have provided us with your email address) or by posting a notice on our Website.  

Contact Us 

  • If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at www.mentallyloud.com.  

Your Rights 

  • You have certain rights with respect to your personal information, subject to local law. These rights may include the right to: 
  • Access and receive a copy of your personal information; 
  • Rectify or correct your personal information; 
  • Delete your personal information; 
  • Object to the processing of your personal information; 
  • Restrict the processing of your personal information; 
  • Withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information; 
  • Receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. 
  • If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at www.mentallyloud.com. We will respond to your request in a reasonable timeframe and in accordance with applicable law.  

Do Not Track Signals 

  • Our Website does not respond to “Do Not Track” signals sent by your browser.  

Third-Party Websites 

  • Our Website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party websites or services.  

Governing Law 

  • This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.  

Dispute Resolution 

  • If you have a dispute with us relating to our Privacy Policy, please contact us at www.mentallyloud.com. We will attempt to resolve your dispute in a reasonable timeframe.  

Effective Date 

  • This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 1, 2023. 
  • Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing you with a positive experience on our Website. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.  
Data Retention 
  • We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and to comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations. 
  • If you would like us to delete your personal information, please contact us at www.mentallyloud.com 

International Data Transfers 

  • We may transfer your personal information to third-party service providers or partners located outside of the United States. 
  • If we do so, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal information in accordance with applicable law.  

California Privacy Rights 

  • If you are a California resident, you may have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) with respect to your personal information. These rights may include the right to: 
  • Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you; 
  • Request that we delete your personal information; 
  • Opt-out of the sale of your personal information; 
  • Access your personal information in a portable and readily usable format. 
  • To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at www.mentallyloud.com. We will respond to your request in a reasonable timeframe and in accordance with applicable law.  

Additional Information 

  • If you would like more information about our privacy practices, please contact us at www.mentallyloud.com. 

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. 

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. 

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 visit our login page, 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.
  • This website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record Browser and Device-based Consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.

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.

Who we share your data with

  • If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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 (if any), 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 (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
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 your data is sent
  • Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.