PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy notice is to provide you with details of how we at A to Zen Life (https://www.atozenlife.com) (“we” “our” “us”) collect and process personal data through your use of our sites. 

At A to Zen Life, we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected, how it is recorded, and how we use it.

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at Privacy.

Personal Information Collected

Upon your visit to our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, cookies that are installed on your device, web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to our site and information about how you interact with our site.

We do not collect any data about your race, ethnicity, religion, political affiliation, or sexual orientation.

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.

Log Files

Like many other websites, we make use of log files. These files merely log visitors to the site — usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies and Web Beacons

A to Zen Life uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

→ Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on https://www.atozenlife.com.

→ Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to A to Zen Life 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 at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html or by clicking the pop-up at the bottom of the screen at any time.

Our Advertising Partners

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include ……. 

  • Google
  • Amazon
  • Share-a-Sale

While each of these advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their site, an updated and hyperlinked resource is maintained here: Privacy Policies. You may consult this listing to find the privacy policy for each of the advertising partners of A to Zen Life.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on A to Zen Life and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

A to Zen Life has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Amazon Affiliate Disclosure Notice:  A to Zen Life is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program.  As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Third-Party Privacy Policies

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. A to Zen Life’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. You may find a comprehensive listing of these privacy policies and their links here: Privacy Policy Links.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. What Are Cookies?

Children’s Information

We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity. 

By using our website, you warrant to us that you are above 13 years of age. 

A to Zen Life does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. 

If a parent or guardian believes that our database has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact information at the beginning of this policy page) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

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Update

This Privacy Policy was last updated on Wednesday, May 15th, 2019.

Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.

DISCLOSURE POLICY

*Last updated July 25, 2018.

In the words of the great scholar and gentleman, Major Benson Winifred Payne,

“What we’ve tried to develop here is a family environment. One of trust, and understanding. I’d like for you to think of me, not only as your commanding officer – but as your friend.” (Major Payne, Gold & Castle, 1995)

In keeping with this spirit of friendship and full disclosure, and in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s Guidelines and policies regarding endorsements and testimonials, in order to protect the public (that’s you!) from any intentionally errant or misleading advertising that has been sponsored/paid for by a group or company, I would like to state the following:

This blog was created to be both a creative outlet and a source of income, and therefore the content may be used to promote products, services, and other businesses. This includes affiliate links, advertising, etc.

I will only promote products and/or services that I have used and/or feel would be beneficial to my readers.

Products may be provided to me free of charge for my review. However, that DOES NOT ensure a positive review! You can always count on hearing my genuine opinion, whether the product or post has been sponsored by a third party or not.

Sponsored products, services, and affiliated businesses may not always be noted as affiliates in every reference (because ain’t nobody got time for that!) Therefore, it should be assumed that every post or link has been sponsored.

COMMENT POLICY

I would LOVE to hear what you have to say!

Conversation is the tinder that keeps the flame of this blog burning. I always look forward to feedback and ideas that contribute to the dynamics of this blog.

With that being said, any comments that violate the spirit of this blog will be deleted.

These include:

  • Spam or comments that are only promotional in nature. Including a link to relevant content is permitted, but comments should be relevant
  • Comments that contain offensive content. This includes subjects that are vulgar, threatening, abusive, pornographic, misleading, or otherwise offensive
  • Comments that include profane language
  • Comments that directly attack another individual on this site
  • Comments that harass myself or any other commenter on this site
  • Personal information should be kept private. Any private and personal information (such as email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, etc) posted in the comments will be deleted as soon as possible to protect the privacy of the commenter. Please do not share this private information within the blog comment

Please feel free to leave comments as long as they are respectful, useful, and add value to the subject of discussion.

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT

Sharing is caring, but I work hard to produce content and images for this website and want to make it clear that all images and text on this site are the property of A to Zen Life.

You may use one or two photos, as long as there is a link back to my original post.

Please do not remove any watermarks, crop, edit or otherwise tamper with my images without first obtaining express written permission from me.

Free printables are for personal use only, and should not be shared.

Please feel free to use Pinterest to repin my content. Thanks!

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.