Who we are
Our website address is: https://joyfullivingglobal.com. Welcome!
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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. Visiting the login page sets a temporary cookie that aids compatibility with some alternate login methods. This cookie contains no personal data and expires after 1 hour.
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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may from time to time 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.
Google Analytics
Data Used: Please refer to the appropriate Google Analytics documentation for the specific type of data Google Analytics collects. Merchandise purchased on this site will send Google Analytics the following information: order number, product id and name, product category, total cost, and quantity of items purchased. Google Analytics does offer IP anonymization, which we have enabled on this site.
Activity Tracked: This feature sends page view events (and potentially video play events) over to Google Analytics for consumption. For sites running WooCommerce-powered stores, some additional events are also sent to Google Analytics: shopping cart additions and removals, product listing views and clicks, product detail views, and purchases.
Mailing List Management
If you opt to join the JLG Community (filling out our membership form on the ‘Become a Member of Joyful Living Global’ page), your email, and also, at your option, your name and city of residence, will be passed to our mailing list management partner, MailChimp. Personal data passed to MailChimp is governed by their own privacy policy (see link below, under ‘Who We Share Your Data With‘).
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.
Security Tools (Jetpack/ iThemes)
The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. This information is retained for 3 days.
Data Used: In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.
Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie (jpp_math_pass) for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human.
Data Synced: Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.
Sharing
Data Used: When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet is active on the site), the following information is used: sharing party’s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed. Additionally, if reCAPTCHA (by Google) is enabled by the site owner, the sharing party’s IP address will be shared with that service. (See link to Google’s privacy policy below, under ‘Who We Share Your Data With‘.)
Who we share your data with
This website relies on services from Google (for visitor analytics), MailChimp (for email subscription list management), iThemes (for security) and Automattic (for additional security, content sharing links, e-commerce, blog subscription notifications, and a more beautiful user experience). Generally any user information shared with these partners is kept as anonymized as possible while still providing the specific service(s) required. See specific types of service (listed above, under ‘What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It‘) for data sharing details.
- Google privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy/
- Jetpack / WooCommerce / Gravatar /Akismet / WordPress.com privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/
- iThemes privacy policy: https://ithemes.com/privacy-policy/
- Mailchimp privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
We respect your privacy and will never sell, rent, lease or give away your information (name, address, email, etc.) to any third party without your consent.
If you choose to give your name and email address into one or more of our site’s registration forms, then we will send you emails relating to the mailing list(s) or service(s) you joined. You may opt out of these services at any time; please see the unsubscribe options associated with your registrations in the individual emails you receive via those services.
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.
Security logs are retained for 3 days.
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 we send your data
This site is part of a network of sites that protect against distributed brute force attacks. To enable this protection, the IP address of visitors attempting to log into the site is shared with a service provided by ithemes.com. (For their privacy policy details, please see the iThemes Privacy Policy.)
Our contact information
To contact us about any matter related to our privacy policy, please email [email protected] .