Privacy Policy
Dear Website Visitor,
I am Linda Pepin, owner of Life in PEI at https://www.lifeinpei.com
In this Privacy Policy, I will tell you about the types of personal information received and collected when you use my website, as well as some of the steps taken to safeguard your information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with me.
About Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that is stored on your computer, which your browser provides to my website each time you return to the site. Cookies are used to help identify and track visitors, their use of my website, and their website access preferences.
Google Analytics Cookies
I use Google Analytics to analyze the use of my website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. I share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available here: Google Privacy Policy
I also use information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to my website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. I use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to my website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow me to update my website and improve your usage of it.
If you do not want your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on: 0pt-Out
Advertising Cookies
I will be using third-party advertising companies (Google Adsense, Google Custom Search) to serve ads on my website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. I share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from my website.
You can view the list of Google's Ad Technology Providers here.
You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks by clicking here.
Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google advertising privacy policy.
This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.
Affiliate Products and Services
I will receive an affiliate commission for some of the products/services sold on my site.
The affiliate services platforms I plan to implement include: Amazon, ShareASale, Commission Junction, TripAdvisor, Priceline, HomeAway, VRBO, Viator, and HotelsCombined.
By clicking on a product or service link on my site, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the links below:
Commission Junction/Conversant privacy policy
Trip Advisor privacy policy
Priceline privacy policy
HomeAway/VRBO privacy policy
Viator privacy policy
Google Maps
https://www.lifeinpei.com uses the Google Maps service to show the location of places mentioned on the site. To use Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. That information is generally transmitted to a Google server and stored there.
Further information about Google Maps handling of user data can be found here.
Social Media
https://www.lifeinpei.com lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. (Below are links to their privacy policies.)
When you click on links to social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest, your browser connects directly with that site and sends information such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, and information about how you use the social media website.
If you want to prevent those social media platforms from collecting your data, please review their individual privacy policies by using the following links:
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Pinterest
To effectively prevent Facebook from collecting your data, log out of your Facebook account while using this website.
Refusing Cookies
You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of my site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.
If you choose to refuse https://www.lifeinpei.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of my website.
Personally Identifiable Information
https://www.lifeinpei.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
https://www.lifeinpei.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit my website, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources made available on my site.
If you submit a question, a comment, a request for information, or make any other submission to me via a form on my site, I will need your name and your email address and will ask for other information relevant to your submission, so I can respond to you.
https://www.lifeinpei.com also collects each visitor's IP address, which helps to combat spam and fraud. IP addresses are not used for any other purpose.
I will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only. Once the information is reviewed and has served its purpose, it will be discarded or stored in my files. I will never sell your personal information, nor will I provide it to any third parties without your knowledge and consent.
If I make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, I will inform you by placing a notice on my website.
https://www.lifeinpei.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, I do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, I cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
https://www.lifeinpei.com may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with my site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to my site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.
Children's Privacy Protection
My website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. I operate my site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. I do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.
Release of Information
In the unlikely event that https://www.lifeinpei.com is ever sold, the information obtained from you through your voluntary participation in the site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through the website of that change in control and practices, and I will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.
Data Storage
Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
I provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of my commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through my website and would like to download and review that information, click here.
You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.
Updates and Effective Date
https://www.lifeinpei.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in the cookie and privacy practices, I will indicate on the site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. I encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information my website collects and how it is used.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to https://www.lifeinpei.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.
Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.
Thank you for taking the time to read this privacy policy.
Linda Pepin
(Owner/webmaster of https://www.lifeinpei.com)
Last updated: Oct., 29th, 2018