Section 1: Who We Are
Date Updated: 04/16/2025
Our website address is: www.catherinesjoy.com. Our business name is Catherine’s Joy. Privacy information is controlled by Catherine, who can be reached at catherinesjoyblog@gmail.com.
Catherine’s Joy understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your information is used and shared online. This site only collects and uses information in ways that are consistent with your rights and our obligations under the law.
This Policy applies to our use of any and all data collected by us in accordance with your use of our site. Please be sure to carefully read this Privacy Policy and ensure that you understand it. You are considered to have accepted this privacy policy when you first use this site. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, then you must stop using the site.
Section 2: What Data is Collected and Why
We collect personal information that you provide to us. Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our website.
Data From Email Forms
To assist with sending you requested information, an email marketing service provider (EMS) may be used to collect and store your email address.
Data From Comments
When visitors leave comments on this 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Data Collected for Analytics—Google Analytics
We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect is anonymized and sent to Google Analytics. Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website.
Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie from your browser settings tab.
In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.
Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Data for Tracking Readers—Cookies
Cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) may be used to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice:
Cookie Notice
Cookies are pieces of code stored in your browser when you visit a website. When you visit our website, we may use cookies to help improve your browsing experience. These cookies make it easier to access the site, customize your experience, and keep track of certain details about your visit.
Cookies may automatically collect information about how you interact with this site, such as the pages you view, the links or ads you click on, and other browsing behavior during your visit. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. It is only used to improve how the website works.
Most internet browsers accept cookies by default, but you can change your browser settings to disable or decline them. Please note, however, that if you disable cookies, some parts of this website might not function as intended.
We also use cookies for a variety of reasons, including maintaining your session, gathering data on site usage, tracking promotions, and supporting security and fraud prevention efforts. In some cases, we may work with third-party advertisers or ad networks (“Advertisers”) who display ads on our site. These Advertisers may use their own tracking technologies, like cookies, to collect information about how users engage with their ads. While we do not share any personally identifiable information with these Advertisers, they may track things like which ads were seen or clicked on from your device, and may link this data with future visits to their websites. They may also combine this with other personal information they collect directly from you. Please refer to each Advertiser’s privacy policy for more details on how they handle your information.
Data from Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, 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 into that website. To learn how to control that information and request deletion, please visit the Privacy Policy of the original website.
Section 3: Who Your Data is Shared With
The data collected may be shared with service providers and others who help with operations and assist in the delivery of products and services including, but not limited to:
- application development,
- site hosting,
- maintenance,
- data analysis,
- infrastructure provision,
- IT services,
- customer service,
- email delivery services,
- marketing,
- analytics, and
- enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;
- Other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through the Services;
- Persons or entities with whom you consent to have your Personal Data shared;
- Third parties in order to prevent damage to our property (tangible and intangible), for safety reasons, or to collect amounts owed to us;
- Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence.
We do this to:
- comply with legal process;
- respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
- enforce our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;
- protect our operations;
- protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others;
- allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party.
Section 4: How Long Your Data is Retained
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.
Analytics data is retained indefinitely.
Contact forms are held for one year.
For all other services, we will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.
Section 5: What Rights You Have Over Your Data
Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or https://www.youronlinechoices.com.
Section 6: Other Information
Users under 13 years of age
Our Services are not directed to and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Data, we will take steps to remove such data. If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact the Privacy Officer. By using the Services, you are representing to us that you are not under the age of 13.
Protection of Personal Data
We use reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the Personal Data and risks involved in processing that information.
Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements
AFFILIATE DISCLAIMER
Some of the sections of this site will allow you to purchase different products and services online provided by other merchants, and not us. Some of the links that we post on our site are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission.*
We are not responsible for the quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or any other aspect of these products and services. In addition, a merchant will likely have privacy and data collection practices that are different from ours. If you make a purchase from a merchant on their site or on a site that we have posted a link to, the information obtained during your visit to that merchant’s online store or site, and the information that you give as part of the transaction, such as your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number, and credit card number, may be collected the merchant and us. For more information regarding a merchant, its online store, its privacy policies, and/or any additional terms and conditions that may apply, visit that merchant’s website and click on its information links or contact the merchant directly.
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
*Disclosed in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”