Your privacy is important. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal data collected and recorded by gosouthhouston.com and its partners and how this data is used.
This privacy policy applies only to online activities and is valid for visitors to this 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.
By using gosouthhouston.com, you hereby consent to this privacy policy and agree to its terms.
Additional information about gosouthhouston.com’s use of cookies is available here.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: Thursday, May 24th, 2018.
Should I update, amend or make any changes to this privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.
For more information or if you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact me by email at [email protected].
Postal mail can be sent to:
Melanie Jones
4 Cloughmore House
Trafalgar Street
Cambridge
CB4 1ET
United Kingdom
If you choose to use this website, information may be collected about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information is used for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about this website’s users’ browsing actions and patterns. It cannot be used to identify any individual.
Like many other Web sites, gosouthhouston.com makes use of log files. These files merely logs visitors to the site - usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’s analytics. My web host is HostGator.
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 movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that can be used to identify you individually.
The cookies used directly by gosouthhouston.com are for Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps me understand how visitors use this website and how I can improve it.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to the hard drive on your computer or other device you use to browse the web. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time at which you visited, whether you have visited the site before and what site referred you to a web page. See this page for more information about what cookies are and how they are used.
Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions at gosouthhouston.com. The information collected is used to compile reports on usage of this website.
Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site. For more information on how to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics (this will apply across all websites you use), visit this Google page.
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.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on gosouthhouston.com.
Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it to serve ads to this site’s visitors based upon their visit to gosouthhouston.com and other sites on the Internet.
Cookies may also be used by Google’s ad network to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.
If you are visiting from within the EU, personalized advertizing is automatically disabled. You will see only non-personalized ads while using this site.
This website, gosouthhouston.com, has no access to or control over the cookies that are used by third-party advertisers, including Google and its approved third party vendors.
Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy here.
Users may also opt out of personalized advertising via the following page on Google’s website.
Third party vendors and ad networks may also serve ads at gosouthhouston.com through Google’s Adwords Certified External Vendors and Ad Exchange Certified External Vendors programs. This may include the use of personalized advertising, which is based on your previous visits to gosouthhouston.com and other sites on the Internet.
A list of Adwords Certified External Vendors and their contact websites is available here and a list of Ad Exchange Certified External Vendors and their contact websites is available here.
For information about how to opt out of the cookies used by any or all of these third party vendors, including those used for personalized advertising, see this website. Alternatively, you can visit the websites of individual third party vendors, as listed in the links above.
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners and affiliate partners include:
– Google
– Google’s approved third party vendors
Google’s privacy policy can be viewed here. Additional information about how Google uses your information is available here.
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on gosouthhouston.com 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.
If you are visiting from within the EU, personalized advertizing is automatically disabled. You will see only non-personalized ads while using this site.
gosouthhouston.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
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. The privacy policy at gosouthhouston.com does not apply to, and I cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
You can opt out of cookies at any time by instructing your browser to stop accepting them. You can also delete cookies that have already been set. Your ability to make full use of the content on this site is not affected.
Please visit these websites for information on how to disable cookies in your browser:
– If you are using Safari or Safari for iOS
– If you are using Chrome
– If you are using Internet Explorer
– If you are using Firefox
For an overview of ways to disable cookies in your browser, see this website.
If you only want to opt out of third party advertizing cookies, visit the Your Online Choices website to turn them off.
If you only want to opt out of personalized advertizing (personalized ads are automatically disabled for EU visitors), information about how to do this is available from Google.
Children need additional protection when online. Parents and guardians should spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity
This website, gosouthhouston.com, is not intended for young children, and does not knowingly collect personally-identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you, as the parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13, believe I have collected any such information, please contact me via one of the methods listed in the introductory section of this privacy policy, and I will do my best to remove this information from my records.
If you are visiting from the EU, this site serves only non-personalized ads.
These ads don’t use cookies for ad personalization, but they do use cookies for the following necessary functions:
– Frequency capping (so you don’t see the same ad too many times)
– Aggregated ad reporting (e.g. collecting anonymized data about how many times an ad has been seen)
– To counteract fraud and abuse (e.g. not charging advertisers for multiple ad clicks from the same user)
This data is used by Google (read more about how Google uses your data). I have no access to this data, and cannot associate it with any real-life individual.
This site uses a Google Analytics cookie for all visitors, including those from the EU.
Google Analytics collects anonymized data about the usage of this site, including information about which page a visitor landed on, what mobile device they use, screen resolution and general location data.
This data helps to improve this site for visitors by highlighting which types of content are most popular, which devices the site may be working less well on, the general area from which people are visiting the site, and so on.
I have access to the data collected by Google Analytics, but I am not able to associate it with any real-life individual.
This site uses a Cloudflare cookie for all visitors, including those from the EU.
This cookie identifies site users who may be using a shared IP address so that security settings can be applied on a per-visitor basis. The cookie does not store any personally identifiable information.
I have no access to this data, which cannot be associated with any real-life individual.
This site claims legitimate interests as the basis for its use of the data associated with the cookies mentioned in the preceding section (Section EU-1) of this privacy policy, on the following grounds:
– I have taken additional measures to protect the rights and interests of EU visitors, namely disabling personalized Google AdSense advertizing and associated cookies and tracking on this site for EU visitors.
– This site’s use of personal data does not unreasonably impinge upon any individual’s interests, rights or freedoms. Visitors who wish to refuse consent to this site’s use of cookies, or delete any existing cookies, have an easy way of doing so which does not impact their access to or use of this site.
– This site’s use of personal data has a minimal privacy impact. None of the data collected is considered sensitive, nor can it be linked to specific individuals.
– This site’s use of personal data falls within the reasonable expectations of users of modern websites and its collection of personal data does not, and cannot be used to, cause harm.
– There is no other commercially reasonable way of undertaking the advertizing, analytics and security functions that this site requires.
Visitors from the EU have the following rights under the terms of the General Data Protection Regulation:
– The right to be informed about the processing of your personal data (see Section EU-1 above).
– The right object to and restrict processing of your personal data.
– The right to be forgotten, i.e. to have your personal data deleted.
– The right to request a copy of your personal data and information about how it is used.
– The right to data portability, i.e. to move your data elsewhere.
– The right to have incorrect or incomplete personal data corrected or completed.
– The right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (contactable here), which has powers to investigate and enforce compliance with data protection law.
If you wish to ask what data this site holds about you, you can do so by emailing me at [email protected].
Please note the following:
– I have no access to data associated with Google’s advertizing cookies.
– I have no access to data associated with Cloudflare’s security cookie.
– I am not able to link IP addresses and other web logging data collected by HostGator to specific individuals, and therefore cannot identify which IP address (or addresses) within this data set is/are associated with your own use of this site.
– I am not able to link the anonymized data collected by Google Analytics to specific individuals, and therefore cannot identify which items within this data set are associated with your own use of this site.