Last Updated: 2021-09-25
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those concerned with how their “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://wwnicky.com.
What Personal Information Do We Collect From The People Who Visit Our Website?
When commenting or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, Website Address, or other details to help you with your experience.
When Do We Collect Information?
We collect information from you when you fill out a form or enter information on our site, including when you leave a comment.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
- To send emails notifying you of new content you opt-in for
- To follow up with you after correspondence (i.e. comments or email inquiries)
Do We Use ‘Cookies’?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember if you’ve already visited the site within a certain time period to prevent pop-up opt-in forms from showing too frequently. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved user experience on our site. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We Use Cookies To:
Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services, such as Google Analytics and Facebook, that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off, It won’t affect the user’s experience.
Third-Party Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. (See the cookie banner upon arrival to our site.) This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third-Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Affiliate Links
Some third-party links to products may contain affiliate links that allow us to earn a small percentage of any purchases made at no extra cost to you as the buyer.
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
This site uses affiliate links through Amazon, VigLink (encompasses links to Walmart, Target, Brandless, and others). Clicking on these retailer links may store cookies on your computer to ensure commissions made from purchases referred by me are credited to me as appropriate. These types of cookies tend to have a short-term expiration date before they disable automatically.
We use Google Google Analytics on our website.
Google, as a third-party vendor, may use cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
We Have Implemented The Following:
- Demographics and Interests Reporting
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Opting Out
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.
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.
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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. – See more at:
http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf
According To CalOPPA, We Agree To The Following;
Users can visit our site anonymously.
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website. (This page is the Privacy Policy, located in the menu at the top of every page on this site.)
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page(s) specified above.
You Will Be Notified Of Any Privacy Changes:
On our Privacy Policy Page
Email Marketing Data Processing
We use Mailerlite to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. Mailerlite is a third-party provider, which may process your data using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter.
Mailerlite’s privacy policy is available at https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy.
You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each newsletter.
You Can Change Your Personal Information:
By replying to any email you received from WW Nicky with the updated information.
How Does Our Site Handle Do Not Track Signals?
We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Does Our Site Allow Third-Party Behavioral Tracking?
It’s also important to note that we allow third-party behavioral tracking, including but not limited to Google Analytics, Mailchimp, and possibly others.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
Third-parties, including ad networks or plug-ins may collect PII from children under 13.
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
To Be In Line With Fair Information Practices, We Will Take The Following Responsive Action, Should A Data Breach Occur:
We will notify the users via in-site notification:
- Within 7 business days
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
CAN-SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address to:
- Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
- Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.
Note: Your email address is only collected when you fill out a form or leave a comment on this website. Cookies are used by WordPress (this site’s web host), and plugins that run on this website, including but not limited to Google Analytics, Mailchimp (pop-up), and others, to personalize your experience on this site as well as to help personalize ads you receive on other sites where ads are already being shown. You can disable cookies in your browser settings to prevent this type of tracking.
To Be In Accordance With CAN-SPAM, We Agree To The Following:
- Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If At Any Time You Would Like To Unsubscribe Receiving Future Emails, You Can:
Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email (Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe), and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.
WW Nicky
Attn: Nicky Locker
PO BOX 93662
LUBBOCK, TX 79493
hello@wwnicky.com
DISCLAIMER
Last update: 2021-06-25
WEBSITE DISCLAIMER
WW Nicky is a personal lifestyle and food blog. This site has no formal affiliation with, nor is it endorsed by My WW (formerly Weight Watchers.)
The information provided by WW Nicky (“we,” “us,” or “our”) on https://wwnicky.com is for general informational purposes only. All information on this site is provided in good faith; however, we make no representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied, regarding the accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability, or completeness of any information on this site.
Under no circumstance shall we have any liability to you for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of this site or reliance on any information provided on this site. Your use of this site and your reliance on any information on this site is solely at your own risk.
EXTERNAL LINKS DISCLAIMER
This site may contain links to other websites or content belonging to or originating from third parties or links to websites and features in banners or other advertising. Such external links are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability, or completeness by us.
We do not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any information offered by third-party websites linked through this site or any website or feature linked in any banner or other advertising. We will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services.
PROFESSIONAL DISCLAIMER
This site cannot and does not contain nutrition, diet, or health advice. Any nutrition, diet, or health information is provided for general informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional advice.
Accordingly, before taking any actions based upon such information, we encourage you to consult with the appropriate professionals. We do not provide any kind of nutrition, diet, or health advice.
The use or reliance of any information contained on this site is solely at your own risk.
AFFILIATES DISCLAIMER
This site is reader-supported and may contain links to affiliate websites. We receive an affiliate commission for any purchases made by you on the affiliate website using such links at no additional cost to you. Our affiliates include the following:
- Amazon
- Target (VigLink)
- Walmart (VigLink)
- Brandless (VigLink)
These affiliate or third-party relationships in no way compromise the integrity of the content, information, services, and materials being presented to you here, and you are under no obligation to click on these affiliate links to purchase those products or services being offered.
These affiliate programs are selected based on personal experiences and preferences. Views/reviews of any product that we share are completely our 100% honest opinions, whether that business is an affiliate or not.
This disclosure policy applies to all affiliate links we share on our website, social media, emails, and any other means of communication with you.