Disclosure & Privacy Policy

MaryJanesFarm has provided this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website (GirlGab).

Information We Collect

If you visit our website to browse, read, or download information, your web browser automatically sends us information such as:

  • your ISP (Internet Service Provider) (e.g. Comcast.com or UIdaho.edu);
  • the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer you are using;
  • the type of browser software and operating system you are using;
  • the website you came from to get to GirlGab.

In addition, we may record other information such as:

  • the date and time you access GirlGab;
  • the duration of your visit;
  • the elements of the website that you interact with;
  • the link you click on before exiting GirlGab.

We use this information to help maintain GirlGab and develop the services we offer — to determine when visitors come to our site; to determine what pieces of our site users interact with or make use of; and to help make our site as accessible and useful as possible.

We do not use this information to identify individuals, nor will we attempt to link this information with any other information that can be used to personally identify you.

We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit GirlGab, unless you choose to provide such information by filling in and submitting a web form or other similar means of communication.

How Long We Keep Information

We may keep information we collect for an unlimited period of time.

Cookies

What are cookies? Cookies are small text files stored on your computer by your browser and used to identify your computer or save certain preferences or other pieces of data regarding your usage of a site. Only the site that requested the creation of a cookie can access the information in that cookie; web sites cannot read the cookie of another site. These cookies are not required for site functionality. You are not required to accept any cookies to use this site.

Google Analytics

We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about and analyze usage of GirlGab. Google Analytics collects information such as:

  • how often users visit;
  • what pages they visit when they do so;
  • and what other sites they visited immediately before coming to GirlGab.

We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve this site and develop or improve other services and products offered by MaryJanesFarm, e.g. the Farmgirl Sisterhood. Google Analytics uses the IP address assigned to your computer on the date you visit GirlGab as its means of identification, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics saves a cookie on your computer to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit GirlGab, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to GirlGab is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.

Advertising

We may use third party advertisements or advertising services on GirlGab to support our site. These advertisers may include independent vendors, Google AdSense, and Doubleclick. Some of these advertisers may use cookies or web beacons, which can provide information regarding your internet usage to those advertisers (as described above for cookies and for information we collect). This information can be used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (interest-based advertising). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (e.g. to show cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites), or based on your geographical location (e.g. to show Idaho real estate ads to someone in Idaho). These cookies and web beacons do not track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security number, bank account numbers, or credit card numbers.

You can prevent GirlGab, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, or any third-party advertising service from recognizing you on return visits by disabling cookies in your browser. For information about how to disable cookies in many major browsers or other web-enabled devices, you may find this webpage at USA.gov helpful: www.usa.gov/optout-instructions. You can also visit youradchoices.com/ to opt out of many third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based advertising.