Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://themontessorifamily.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

If you register to our newsletter, we will collect your name and email address. This data is stored securely by our email marketing provider. You can choose to unsubscribe to our newsletter at any time by scrolling to the end of one of our email and click on the last link in the message.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the 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.

Media

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

Contact forms

We will only use the data you provide in the contact forms to contact you. You can request at any time to be deleted from my clients and contacts file. To do so, just contact us.

Cookies

Our website utilizes various types of cookies to improve user experience and analyze site traffic. Specifically:

Essential cookies

We use essential cookies to enable core functionalities and ensure a seamless browsing experience. Those cookies allow us to authenticate users and to prevent fraudulent use of of our website.

Google Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to collect data on how visitors interact with our site. This includes tracking the pages visited, the amount of time spent on each page, and the actions taken on each page. The data collected by Google Analytics is anonymized and aggregated to help us understand user behavior and improve our website. Google provides options to manage or opt-out of these cookies if you prefer not to have your site activity available to Google Analytics. You can adjust these settings by visiting Google's Ads Settings or by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Facebook Pixel Cookies

Our website employs Facebook Pixel to measure the effectiveness of our advertising by understanding the actions people take on our website. The Facebook Pixel collects data that helps us track conversions from Facebook ads, optimize ads based on collected data, and build targeted audiences for future ads. This cookie also enables us to remarket to people who have previously visited our pages or taken specific actions on our website. The information is collected in a way that does not personally identify you, but it can be used to connect your activity with your Facebook account. You can manage and opt-out of Facebook Pixel cookies through your Facebook Ad Preferences.

Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage your preferences for these cookies at any time through our cookie settings panel on our website. Opting out to analytics cookies will not affect your ability to use our site.

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 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.

What we do with your data

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We do not share your information with any outside parties.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

We will retain the information you provide in the contact forms in an encrypted contacts file. You can request at any time to be deleted from our contacts file contact us.

If you registered to our newsletter, your name and email address are stored securely by our email marketing provider. You can choose to unsubscribe to our newsletter at any time by scrolling to the end of one of our email and click on the last link in the message.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the unlikely event of a data breach, we will inform the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office. If the breach is likely to result in a risk to your data privacy, we will inform you.