Privacy Policy – JarredAndrews.com

JarredAndrews.com Privacy Policy – Who We Are

JarredAndrews.com is a website, blog, and professional portfolio dedicated to digital project management and creativity & innovation research to use technology for good.

Furthermore, by using technology for good, I aim to help companies, cohorts, and professionals envision and ultimately deliver better, more streamlined, sustainable, and ethical workplace futures for customers, employees, and management.

Please note

JarredAndrews.com believes that one (of the many) essential things when “online” is to provide data privacy and protection. For transparency, I monetize the site’s blog posts and some other pages (sans these pages: Home, About, Project Portfolio, Accessibility Statement, Copyright, Disclaimer, Privacy Policy, and Terms and Conditions) with Google AdSense through advertising. I also monetize this website through Affiliate Programs (or Partnerships) and provide a notification before the link (denoted with an asterisk *) if it’s a monetized link.

*Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate/partnership links, which means, at no additional cost to you, JarredAndrews.com earns a commission if you click through one of them and make a purchase.

Affiliate Link Examples:

I’m a *Todoist Ambassador (click the link if you’re looking for an intuitive, easy-to-use, and super powerful task/project management tool – that understands human language commands)! Also, if you want to access the above link on a different page, click the Todoist Badge in the Footer!
UserWay helps over 1 million websites comply with ADA law and conform to WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 guidelines. Here’s a link to their *pricing page and another to learn about *UserWay.

Next, you should see a round “cookie choices” button at the bottom left side of your screen (the round button at the top right is through UserWay for accessibility). For visitors outside the U.S.A. or states (within the U.S.A.) with more comprehensive data protection policies, “opt-out” options may also be displayed. If a region has data standards that cannot be immediately accommodated, Country Blockers and other tools may be used until possible.

This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received, collected, retained, and temporarily stored (or not) by JarredAndrews.com and how it also gets used.

Our website address is https://jarredandrews.com.
Please email data requests to admin@jarredandrews.com.
For other requests or questions, please email jarred@jarredandrews.com.

Below are links to additional terms and conditions for using this site:

Log Files

Like many other websites, JarredAndrews.com makes use of log files. The information inside of log files may include:

Internet protocol (IP) addresses
Type of browser
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
Date/time stamp
Referring/exit pages
The number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the website, and gather demographic information

Some regulations (depending on your home state/country) imply that IP addresses and other such details don’t get linked to any personally identifiable information. However, with GDPR rolling out on May 25th, 2018, Recital 30 says that:

Natural persons may be associated with online identifiers provided by their devices, applications, tools, and protocols, such as internet protocol addresses, cookie identifiers, or other identifiers such as radio frequency identification tags. This may leave traces which, in particular when combined with unique identifiers and additional information received by the servers, may be used to create profiles of the natural persons and identify them.
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Cookies and Web Beacons

You can view this site’s cookie policy here: https://jarredandrews.com/cookie-policy.

JarredAndrews.com uses cookies to store information about visitor preferences, such as which information appeals to our audience on specific pages. We record search phrases entered into the site’s search tool (magnifying glass icon). We also use cookies to help customize web page content based on browser type and other information visitors send via their browser.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads. As of 3/15/21, JarredAndrews.com does not serve targeted advertisements to visitors.

Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visits to other Internet sites.

Users may opt out of using the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Here is more info on how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

These third-party ad servers (or ad networks) use technology to display the advertisements and links that appear on websites and get sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. In addition, third-party ad networks may use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure advertisement effectiveness and/or personalize the advertising content you see.

More Third-Party Info

JarredAndrews.com has no access or control over cookies that third-party advertisers use. Therefore, you should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices and instructions about how to opt out. You can find that information here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

Different Web Browsers

The JarredAndrews.com Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control, other advertisers’ or websites’ activities. If you wish to turn off cookies, you may do so through your browser settings. More detailed information about cookie management for specific web browsers is on your browser’s respective website. Although the list of browser links below (highlighted in pink) is not all-encompassing, it may help steer you in the right direction.

If you use Yahoo, here is a link to their “Privacy controls” page: https://policies.yahoo.com/xa/en/yahoo/privacy/tools/index.htm

For Bing, here is a link to their “Privacy settings” page: https://www.bing.com/account/general

Microsoft Edge users: here is the link to their “Privacy > Ad Settings” page: https://choice.microsoft.com.

Google users: you can find the “Data & personalization” settings here: https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization.

For Mozilla Firefox, here is a link to their “Privacy and security settings” page: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/privacy-and-security

If you use DuckDuckGo, here is a link to their “Settings” page: https://duckduckgo.com/settings

What personal data we collect, and why

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site (you must log in), we collect the data shown in the comments form, an IP address, and browser user agent string (to help with 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Here is Gravatar’s privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. This is because visitors to the site can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

JarredAndrews.com does not currently use a contact form. Please visit the contact page for more info. However, there is a form for blog/newsletter signups via Brevo (formerly SendInBlue).

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so 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 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 gets discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days; screen options cookies continue for a year.

Please note:

If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks.
When you log out of your account, the login cookies get removed.
An additional cookie gets saved in your browser if you edit or publish an article. (This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.)

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 like the visitor has visited the other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Currently, JarredAndrews.com’s data processor is Google Analytics.

Here is a link to the Google Analytics Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Google Analytics offers a browser add-on to opt out of analytics tracking. Here is the link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

JarredAndrews.com uses third-party providers’ services to help bring visitors relevant content and improve website functionality, security, and more.

Below is a list of the third-party services (cloud-based or not) I use as of September 5, 2024, and either their respective privacy policy, terms of use, author, or plugin page—the plugin’s usage is noted in parenthesis. This list is subject to change:

Add Widget After Content (Notice Generator): https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-widget-after-content/
Brevo (Marketing Platform): https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/
Broken Link Checker (Linking Tool): https://wpmudev.com/privacy-policy/
CookieYes (Cookie Consent): https://www.cookieyes.com/privacy-policy/
Elementor (Page Builder): https://elementor.com/about/privacy/
Font Awesome (Icon Generator): https://fontawesome.com/privacy
Futurio (Website Theme): https://futuriowp.com/privacy-policy/
Imagify (Image Optimizer): https://imagify.io/privacy/
Site Kit By Google (Key Metrics): https://sitekit.withgoogle.com/
Wordfence (Security Plugin): https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/
WordPress.org (CMS): https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
WP Consent API (Consent Management): https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-consent-api/
WP Crontrol (CRON Manager): https://wp-crontrol.com/privacy/
WP Rocket (Cache Plugin): https://wp-rocket.me/privacy-policy/
Yoast SEO (SEO Plugin): https://yoast.com/privacy-policy/
UserWay (Accessibility Plugin): https://userway.org/privacy/

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata get preserved to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.

Google Analytics user and event data retention data are held on our site for 50 months, beginning March 15, 2021.

We also store the personal information provided by users who register on my website for a user profile. Once you register a profile, you can see, edit, or delete personal information at any time (except you cannot change your username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can email admin@jarredandrews.com to request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you by emailing admin @jarredandrews.com.

Please note that this does not include any data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service before being sent for review. Also, visitor comments, logins, and data get automatically scanned with real-time malware, firewall, and spam detection (or similar) technologies. In this case, JarredAndrews.com uses Wordfence. More info can be found here: https://www.wordfence.com/wordfence-signup.

Your contact information

JarredAndrews.com doesn’t sell data to other organizations.

For any privacy-specific questions, please email admin@jarredandrews.com.

Additional information for JarredAndrews’s Privacy Policy

As mentioned above, JarredAndrews.com monetizes blog posts on this website through Google AdSense.

How we protect your data

JarredAndrews.com uses SSL protection, 2FA, Content Delivery Networks, Firewalls, Blocking technologies, and other security measures.

What data breach procedures we have in place

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction. We take reasonable measures, such as monitoring our website and Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

JarredAndrews.com uses alerts and added security through Wordfence, SSL protection, our Host, and a Content Delivery Network—24/7.

Once we have a blog page, we will require users to log in to leave comments through the Gravatar service (please see above RE: the “Comments” section for more info).

What third parties we receive data from

JarredAndrews.com doesn’t currently accept or buy data from third-party services for marketing or advertising.

What automated decision-making and/or profiling we do with user data

JarredAndrews.com does not provide any service that includes automated decision-making/profiling.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

We occasionally update JarredAndrews.com’s Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions to keep visitors and users up-to-date. Therefore, we encourage you to check for new changes frequently. Please see below for the changelog.

Accessibility Statement

To read this website’s accessibility statement, please visit https://jarredandrews.com/accessibility.

Changelog:

3/15/21: Original Privacy Policy Published
11/2/21: Additional third parties listed
1/28/22: Cookie Policy link added
4/23/22: Third-party services update
5/6/22: Google AdSense added to blog posts only
7/1/22: Todoist Ambassador and affiliate/partnership disclaimer example added
7/25/22: Added pages omitted from AdSense
9/25/23: Added Accessibility Statement link and third-party services
3/23/24: Edited SendInBlue > Brevo info and updated third-party services list (CookieYes)
9/5/24: Updated Third-party services list and omitted AdSense pages

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