Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important. This notice has been made available through a link on the homepage of this website to make this information easy to find.

The purpose of this notice is to explain the online information practices of this website, Irish American Mom, and to explain the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Who Is Irish American Mom?

Irish American Mom LLC is a limited liability company registered in the United States in the state of Kentucky.

Irish American Mom LLC is committed to protecting your privacy online. This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect through this website and how we collect and use that information. Our website address is https://www.irishamericanmom.com.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

For this website, “personal information” is defined as information that you voluntarily provide to us which personally identifies you and/or your contact information, such as your name, phone number and email address.

Irish American Mom is a blog publishing articles for visitors to read on the topics of Irish culture and heritage, and a service where users can purchase products through affiliate links or through an online giftshop operated by Irish American Mom.

Use of irishamericanmom.com, including all materials presented herein and all online services provided by this website is subject to the following Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to all site visitors, customers, and all other users of the site.

Information collected by this site includes:

Your name, and email address. This information is requested when you leave a comment on this site. It is used to communicate with you should you win a prize in a giveaway. If you choose to subscribe to email updates for blog posts your email will be shared with our e-commerce software providers to ensure delivery of your email. We use your email to communicate with you and to manage our customer relationship with you. You can unsubscribe from the Irish American Mom mailing list at any time using the unsubscribe link in each email or by contacting us at mom(at)irishamericanmom.com.

Blog Interaction. We only collect the personal information you voluntarily provide to us which may include:

• Your email address in order to subscribe to our mailing list;
• Your name, email address and/or social media profile in order to post a comment on our blog;
• Your full name, email address and message in order to contact us via our contact form.
• Your name and mailing address for mailing of prizes in giveaways. Your mailing address will be shared with a third party vendor who may sponsor a prize in a giveaway. Your permission to share your address with this third party will be requested via email before sharing it.

Activity. We may record information relating to your use of the Site, such as

• the searches you undertake,
• the pages you view,
• your browser type,
• IP (internet protocol) address,
• ISP (internet service provider)
• requested URL,
• referring URL,
• timestamp information. including date and time of access.

The purpose of gathering this information is to help administer the site, analyze trends and preferences, track users movement within the pages of this site, and gather broad demographic information for internal use.

We use this type of information to administer the Site and provide the highest possible level of service to you and enhance your experience when visiting the site. We also use aggregate information to statistically analyze user preferences, demographics, behavior and characteristics. This assists us in measuring and analyzing users' interest in and use of different sections and offerings within the Site.

Cookies. We may send cookies to your computer in order to uniquely identify your browser and improve the quality of our service. The term “cookies” refers to small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing the Site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using your web browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Site may not work properly or at all.

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 process payment for purchases you make through the Website; or,
• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

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. 

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.

If you use a Gravatar image, an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see.

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 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.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Please be aware that when you use our Site to post comments and share information in the text of your comment, the information you provide will not be secure and will be publicly visible on the site. This information can be collected and used by others. As a result, you should exercise caution before you make such disclosures.

This site uses Akismet anti-spam services. Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on this site. The information collected includes the commenter's IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

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.

Contact Forms

If you submit your personal data including name and email address through a contact form on this site, the information will be securely stored indefinitely after communication between us has ceased, unless you request your information be deleted. This is done for customer service purposes and the information is never shared without express written permission.

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.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics to collect data about the number of visitors to this site and their viewing patterns. Google Analytics services require the use of cookies to operate. These are tiny text files that are saved within each user’s browser and record data about the visitor’s activity which is then sent to Google and, in turn, used to create analytical reports that help guide the creator of this blog when planning new material to create.

Social Sharing Buttons Found On This Website

We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy.

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends of 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.

We use a X (formerlyTwitter 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 Twitter's data privacy policy.

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 Google's data privacy policy.

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy.

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.

We use Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy.

We use a StumbleUpon Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. Log Data is a form of Non-Identifying Information, in accordance with their privacy policy.

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 subscribed for email updates from 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.

Third Party Website Links

Irish American Mom is not responsible for the privacy practices of advertisers or blog commenters. Links on this site are for your use and reference.

Irish American Mom LLC is not responsible for the privacy policies of other websites you may access through links from this site. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.

Advertising Partners

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement

Irish American Mom LLC serves advertisements on blog pages in partnership with a third-party advertising network, called Raptive.

Irish American Mom is not responsible for the actions of advertisers or sponsors on this site. Should a reader purchase a product or service based upon a link from this blog, all further issues must be resolved by the reader with that company and not Irish American Mom LLC.

Irish American Mom LLC allows third-­‐party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit this website or mobile application. These companies may use non-­‐personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you.

These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit: http://www.networkadvertising.org/.

You may also click the advertising settings icon in the bottom left corner of the screen on this site. This allows you to access the privacy policy and options for AdThrive, part of CMI Marketing, Inc..

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with Raptive Advertising, previously CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/

Advertisers publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, our advertising partners will track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Affiliate Program Participation

Irish American Mom LLC participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means we may post customized links, provided by retailers, to track referrals to their websites, and we may earn an advertising fee from any purchases made through these links. This program uses cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

This Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.  

Irish American Mom, LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com.  As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Irish American Mom, LLC is a participant in the Food Ireland Affiliate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to FoodIreland.com.  As part of this Food Ireland Affiliate program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Food Ireland, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

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 mom@irishamericanmom.com to be removed from our mailing list. 

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to mom@irishamericanmom.com

Amend – You may contact us at mom@irishamericanmom.com 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 mom@irishamericanmom.com

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping 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

The Website 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 mom@irishamericanmom.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at the discretion of Irish American Mom LLC. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Site and this Policy periodically and to be aware of any modifications. Updates to this Policy will be posted on this page.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding this privacy policy. Email us at mom@irishamericanmom.com

Our mailing address is P.O. Box 73, Fisherville, KY 40023, United States

This policy was last updated on August 29th, 2022.