User Agreement

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Sidetracked allows website members and non-members to comment on posts and share posts on social media.  Sidetracked is not responsible for comments made by website users on the site or shared platforms. Comments made on our website by members or non-members may not reflect the opinions or values of Sidetracked. Sidetracked reserves the right to delete comments and revoke website membership at any time and for any reason.  

For questions, please contact us.

Privacy Policy

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The information you provide from subscribing to this website will be used only to send occasional offers, newsletters, or updates.  Sidetracked Blog will never sell or lend your information or use it for reasons other than communication or transactions directly related to Sidetracked Blog.

 

Any personal information collected for the purpose of a money transaction is used only for the processing and support of that action. Any questions, clarifications or request to remove personal information please send to sidetrackedblog@gmail.com 

 

As an Amazon Associate and Google AdSense Participant, Sidetracked Blog receives a commission from purchases made through links on its website. 

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Sidetracked Blog is hosted through Wix.com and may use various analytics programs to analyze web traffic.  As such, we receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

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Again, any information collected will not be shared or used for anything unrelated to communications between you and Sidetracked Blog.

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How we collect information

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When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

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Why we collect personal information

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We collect non-personal and personal information for the following purposes:

1. To provide and operate our services;

2. To provide our users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

3. To be able to contact our visitors and users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

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How we store, use, share and disclose your personal information

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with an online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases, and general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

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How we communicate 

We may contact you to notify you regarding new content to our website, newsletters and other communication via email. We may send you freebies you sign up for as well as any goods or services sold. We may contact you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes, we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

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How we use cookies and other tracking tools

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The following types of cookies are used on this site:

Session (Transient) cookies: These cookies are erased when you close your browser and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.
 

Persistent (Permanent or Stored) cookies: These cookies are stored on your hard drive until they expire (i.e. they are based on the set expiration date) or until you delete them. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific site.

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How you can withdraw your consent

If you don’t want us to process your data or would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, please contact us at sidetrackedblog@gmail.com

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Privacy policy updates

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.