Melody Payne | Music for a Lifetime

Disclosure, Privacy Policy, & Copyright

Who We Are

Our website address is https://melodypayne.com

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.

Contact Forms

  • When you use our contact form, your name and email address are collected for the sole purpose of responding to your inquiry.
  • The information is not used for marketing purposes.

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.
  • 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.

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

Analytics

Who We Share Your Data With

  • Emails are collected through 3rd parties.
  • https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
  • https://www.leadpages.net/privacy
  • We do not store your information other than to optimize your experience with us through the use of cookies.
  • You can disable cookies by changing your browser settings.
  • We are not responsible for the content of this blog when it is shared to other sites without our permission.
  • This privacy policy is subject to change at any time. If you have questions, please contact me directly.

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.
  • Google Analytics records are kept for 14 months.
  • If you sign up for the newsletter or resource library, your name and email address are kept for as long as you are a member. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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 We Send Your Data

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

Our Contact Information for Privacy-Specific Concerns

  • Melody Payne at hello@melodypayne.com

How We Protect Your Data

  • Our site is regularly scanned by malware software
  • We use an SSL certificate

What Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place

  • You will be contacted within 72 hours

Disclosure Policy

In 2009, the FTC updated their guidelines regarding product endorsements and affiliate links. Since this blog is a source of income for us, we felt it was important to disclose the following information to you, our readers:

  • The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely ours, and we only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
  • The content of this blog may contain affiliate links that promote products that we write about.
  • The compensation received from those links will never influence the content, topics, or posts made in this blog.
  • We may mention products or services without specifically referencing that they are connected to an affiliate link, but all posts containing an affiliate link will include a link to this disclosure page.
  • We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
  • Any sale that is made through an affiliate link provides us with a small commission. You will never be charged for this commission. It is paid directly from the company with whom we are affiliated.
  • Third parties, through the Google AdSense program, may be placing and reading cookies on your browsers to provide you with relevant ads.
  • You can read more here: How Google Uses Data When You Use Our Partners’ Sites or Apps
  • Operating expenses for a blog can be costly, so we provide affiliate links and ads to help generate income to cover those expenses.
  • Each and every day that this blog exists, our number one priority is your trust. We will never compromise our standards or the truth to make money.

GDPR Compliancy

  • We are striving to meet and comply to the requirements of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, May 25, 2018).

Copyright

  • We love it when you let others know about our site! You may pin images from this site to Pinterest, you may share articles using the social sharing buttons at the bottom of each post, and you may download resources from the site for personal use only.
  • However, you may not use any of the images or information on your own site without obtaining written permission first, unless you are sharing about one of our posts within an article on your site. In this case, you are welcome to use one or two images within your article, as long as you link directly back to our original article.
  • All articles, images, and text on this website are copyrighted by Melody Payne, with all rights reserved.
  • Visiting this website or becoming a subscriber to the newsletter does not grant you permission to copy, reproduce, or claim as your own any information or service obtained from this website.
  • You may not create derivative works from the information or images on this site, and you may not sell or give them away to any individual.
  • Visiting and engaging with this site indicate your agreement to respect this copyright and abide by the terms of use.

This page was last updated on May 23, 2018.