PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are

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

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.

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.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Log files

This site collects and uses the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as Xfinity). the browser you used to visit my site (such as Internet Explorer or Chrome), the time you visited my site and which pages you visited throughout the site.

Advertising

Third party advertisers support this website. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on this site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit the site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash or other technologies installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Florida real estate ads to someone in Florida, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

In addition to using cookies mentioned above, we also may permit certain third party companies (mostly Google, but possibly some others) to help tailor advertising that we (or Google) think may be of interest to users and to collect and use other data about user activities on my sites. These companies may deliver ads that might also place cookies and otherwise track user behavior. These cookies will in no way identify you or give anyone access to your computer.

DoubleClick DART cookies

The site also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (personalized targeting). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting shoes, you may see hiking boot advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about pets). DART uses no personally identifiable information. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off the cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this could affect how you are able to interact with this site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize 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.

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 your data is sent

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

WooCommerce

This website uses WooCommerce.

Checkout Data Collection

We collect information about You during the checkout process on Our store.

What We collect and store

While You visit Our site, We will track:

Products You have viewed: We will use this to, for example, show You products You have recently viewed

Location, IP address and browser type: We will use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping

Shipping address: We will ask You to enter this so We can, for instance, estimate shipping before You place an order, and send You the order!

We will also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while You are browsing Our site.

When You purchase from Us, We will ask You to provide information including Your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We will use this information for purposes, such as, to:

Send You information about Your account and order.

Respond to Your requests, including refunds and complaints

Process payments and prevent fraud

Set up Your account for Our store

Comply with any legal obligations We have, such as calculating taxes

Improve Our store offerings

Send You marketing messages, if You choose to receive them

If You create an account, We will store Your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about You for as long as We need the information for the purposes for which We collect and use it, and We are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, We will store order information for 10 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes Your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if You choose to leave them.

Payments

We collect payments through third-party vendors Stripe.com and Paypal.com. We do not store payment information on this website.