Effective Date: June 27, 2025
At The Off Grid Barefoot Girl, your privacy is important. This Privacy Policy outlines how information is collected, used, and protected when you visit our website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s 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. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy. After your comment is approved, your profile picture (if applicable) is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors to the site can download and extract that information.
Social Sharing & Login
If you use social login to create an account or share content, we collect your public profile data from the social network only with your consent. This may include your name, email address, profile URL, and profile picture. This data is used solely to create your account or enable social features, and you may revoke this permission at any time from your profile settings or by contacting us directly.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies are small data files stored on your device.
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience and will last for one year.
- Login Cookies: If you log in to our site, we set cookies to save your login and screen display preferences. Login cookies last two days; display preference cookies last one year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends login cookies to two weeks.
- Session Cookies: Temporary cookies may be used to check browser compatibility and improve user experience.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited the other website directly. These sites may collect data, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with their content.
Third-Party Services
We use third-party services to operate and improve this site:
Grow by Mediavine
We use Grow by Mediavine to offer enhanced user experiences such as email opt-ins, recommended content, and user engagement tools. Grow may collect anonymized data to personalize content and improve your experience. For more information, visit https://www.mediavine.com/privacy-policy/.
Analytics
We may use services like Google Analytics to gather information about traffic and user behavior. This data helps us understand how our content is used and improve future content offerings.
Affiliate Disclosure
Some of the links on this site are affiliate links. This means we may earn a small commission—at no extra cost to you—if you click through and make a purchase. We only promote products and services that we personally use or believe will benefit our readers. Affiliate commissions help support this blog and keep our content free.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to help us recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
For users who register on the site (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for changing their username). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.
Your Rights
If you have an account or have left comments, you may request an exported file of your personal data or request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for legal, administrative, or security purposes.
Data Protection
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your data. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. By using this site, you acknowledge and accept this risk.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (e.g., Akismet).
Contact Us
If you have questions about this privacy policy or how your data is handled, please contact:
The Off Grid Barefoot Girl
