DISCLAIMER
The purpose of TheGreenSpectrum.net is to chronicle our journey to a more compassionate and eco-friendly lifestyle. This journey is ever changing as new information becomes available to us. This blog reflects our opinions and doesn’t reflect the opinions of any organizations we may be affiliated with. Any information on this blog is accurate and true to the best of our knowledge, but there may be omissions, errors or mistakes that we will do our best to rectify in a timely manner. The information present on this blog is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only and shouldn’t be seen as any kind of professional advice. We reserve the right to change how we manage or run this blog at any time.
SPONSORED & AFFILIATE CONTENT
Some of the links on this site may include affiliate links. Please note that we only promote products and services that we actually use and love. All opinions are our own and readers are reminded to practice their own judgment.
Our aim is to provide you with reliable and eco-friendly alternatives to products that are necessary for day to day living. We do not want you to purchase any products we recommend without first considering their place in your life. Our needs may be different than yours, and something that we use and love may be completely unnecessary to you. Please keep this in mind when making any purchase on our website or otherwise.
In hopes of being as transparent with our readers as possible we’d like you to know that any money made from this website will be put right back into it. We will first focus on compensating friends and family who have so generously donated their time and energy to do design and editing work for us and will eventually pay ourselves back for the money it took to get this site up and running. We will use additional money made to pay for services necessary to expand the reach of our website such as, but not limited to, email marketing, paid advertisements, editing software, and other marketing tools. Our goal is to make a zero waste and vegan lifestyle more accessible, understandable, and feasible for our readers. Eventually, we’d love to have more time to dedicate to this blog which would be made possible by earning an income. When that time comes, we will let you know. In the meantime, we are so incredibly grateful for your support.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly at Brittany@thegreenspectrum.net
WHO WE ARE
Our website address is: http://www.thegreenspectrum.net.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER SITES
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.
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.