Privacy policy.

HelenKLloyd.Com is a personal blog, owned and operated by Helen Lloyd. Helen Lloyd (“I”, “we” or “us”) is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information, and this privacy policy describes what information is collected from you on HelenKLloyd.Com (hereinafter the “website”) and how it is used. The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website.

This policy explains how I collect, process and protect personal data about you. By visiting this website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

What Information I Collect and How It Is Used

When you access this website, you may provide certain personally identifiable information including but not limited to your name and email address when you subscribe to my newsletter or enter any other information on the website to communicate. From time to time, I may also collect information that you submit when you participate in any online surveys that I post on this website.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.

Your personal information is used to personalise your experience, improve the website to better serve you, tailor advertisements to you, elicit reviews of services or products, provide you with offers, promotions and to follow up with you through correspondence (for example, email). I may also use this information to provide you with offers and promotions from partners and/or affiliates in exchange for a commission without an additional cost to you.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

I share this information with Squarespace and Google Analytics, this website’s analytic providers, to analyse website statistics related to user behaviour and interests, improve performance and your use of the website and to further enhance products and services offered to you.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

In conjunction with the use of cookies, third parties may also use web beacons, which are also known as clear images, web bugs or pixel tags to collect general information about your use of this website. They monitor user activity and are used to track customer behaviour data. This information may be relevant to third parties such as the ad networks used on this website to tailor the advertising based on your behaviour and interests.

I may use social media pixels to track and collect general information about your use in compliance with different social media sites for the purpose of promoting products and services, tracking conversions, remarketing and running targeted advertisements.

Third party links and use

I may include, offer or advertise third party links, products or services on the website. Once you click on a third party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by my Privacy Policy.

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images and advertisements). 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.

I may use Google Adsense advertising along with any other third party advertising on the website. Google also uses cookies to serve ads on the website for the purpose of providing a positive user experience. Third party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on user’s prior visits to the website. You can opt out of Google advertising by visiting their privacy policy and ad settings.

I have no control over these third parties and they have their own privacy policies. I am not responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. You should read their privacy policies and contact them directly. You also agree that your use of these third party websites is solely at your own risk.

Social Media

Social media accounts and sharing options are available on this website. Social media sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest) can track your personal information. Should you choose to interact with I on social media, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information. This information is no longer private. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others.

I have no control over and take no responsibility for the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you. I am not subject to any kind of liability related to misuse of your information by others.

Marketing Emails

You have the option of opting in or unsubscribing from my marketing email list. By subscribing, you agree to receiving newsletters, updates, messages, promotional materials and any other content related to this website. I share your contact information with Squarespace, my email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on my behalf. You can unsubscribe from my marketing emails by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

When you send an email response, your email message along with email address and responses are saved for communication purposes with you. This information is kept confidential and I do not share, sell or trade your email information with third parties except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy.

Security

By using this website, you agree to hold us harmless for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties. You also agree that I cannot be held responsible for any disclosure of your information through this website without my knowledge and consent.

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Privacy Policy Updates

This privacy policy is effective as of 28/10/2021 and will be updated and modified as needed. You are responsible for visiting this page periodically to check for future updates to this policy. Any modifications to this privacy policy will be effective upon publishing the new terms, and your continued use of the website after the posting of any updates constitutes your acceptance of the modified privacy policy.