Policies and Procedures

Disclaimer

Sparking Wisdom is a blog site that has ever-changing and updating content. This blog contains personal opinions and does not reflect the opinions of any organizations we might be affiliated with. Information provided on this site is accurate and true to the best of our knowledge, but there may be omissions, errors, or mistakes. We are not professionals, therefore the information provided on this site is for entertainment and information only and shouldn’t be seen as any kind of advice. We reserve the right to change how we manage or run the blog and may change the focus or content at any time.

In order to grow, Sparking Wisdom earns revenue in a few different ways. We may publish sponsored posts. We also sometimes earn an affiliate commission on the sales of products we link to. We feature only items we genuinely love and want to share. These are the ways we support Sparking Wisdom, and allow us to run the site and engage with you all!

Privacy Policy

Sparking Wisdom is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information, and this privacy policy describes what information is collected from you and how it is used. The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website.

By visiting and using the website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

Children’s Privacy

We respect the privacy of children and “child” means an individual under the age of 13. All information and content on this website is intended for individuals over the age of 18 that reside in the United States. Children under the age of 18 are prohibited from using this website. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from children under the age of 13 without prior parental or guardian consent. If you believe personal information is collected from someone under the age of 13 without parental or guardian consent, then please contact us to have that information deleted.

What Information We Collect and How it is Used

When you access the website, you may provide certain personally identifiable information including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number, address, avatar image, credit card information when you make a purchase on the website.

This information is collected when you register on the site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, contact us, use the search feature on the website, provide comments or any other feedback, fill out a form or use live chat or enter any other information on the website to communicate with us. From time to time, we may also collect information that you submit when you participate in any online surveys that we may post on our website.

Your personal information is used to personalize your experience, improve the website to better serve you, provide customer service support, efficiently process your requests or transactions, tailor advertisements to you, elicit reviews of services or products, provide you offers, promotions and to follow up with you through correspondence (email, live chat, or phone). We may also use this information to provide you offers and promotions from our partners and/or our affiliates in exchange for a commission without additional cost to you.

Additionally, like other websites, this website automatically collects certain information about you through Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects certain information about your location, browsing history, the pages you visit, the equipment you used to access the website, traffic patterns, and other general patterns related to your use of the website.

This information is used to analyze website statistics related to user behavior and interests, improve our performance and your use of the website and to further enhance our products and services offered to you.

Comments and Social Media

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. When you leave a comment, your name, email address and website/organization name is not shared with a third party, and may be used to communicate with you.

Social media accounts and sharing options are available on this website. Social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and so forth) can track your personal information. Should you choose to interact with us on social media, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information. This information is no longer private. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you.

INSTAGRAM: Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service. Instagram’s privacy policy can be found here: http://instagram.com/legal/privacy/.

PINTEREST: Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos. Pinterest’s privacy policy can be found here.

TWITTER: Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”. Twitter’s privacy policy can be found here.

Any such interactions via comments and social media with us do not subject us to any kind of liability related to misuse of your information by others.

Use of Cookies

The website may use cookies to facilitate your use of the website. Cookies are files with small amounts of data including an anonymous unique identifier that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive when you are viewing the website. Just like other websites, we automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information including but not limited to your IP address, geographic location, language preference, date and time of visitors.

This information is only collected to better serve and understand your user experience on the website.  You have the option of turning off cookies on your computer should you wish to do so. If you choose to do that, you may not be able to view all features and content of this website.

WordPress

Our site is hosted by WordPress. WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Users of our site may, at their option, engage by creating content such as comments or posts. In the event you submit any content to our site, WordPress may collect information such as first name, last name, email address, date and time of submitting the content.

Third-Party Links and Use

We may include, offer or advertise third party links, products or services on the website. Once you click on a third party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, advertisements, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We have no control over these third parties and they have their own privacy policies. Neither are we responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. You should contact them directly and read their privacy policies for any questions.

Click this link to see How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps

Changes to Policies

We may update our policies from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policies on this page and update the “effective date” at the top of this policy page.
You are advised to review these policies periodically for any changes. Changes to these policies are effective when they are posted on this page.