Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://ohlifesbeautiful.com. Through this page we are informing you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information we receive from users of the site. We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in accordance with current legislation, best practice set out in this privacy policy.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We will be collecting:

Search terms you have used to either find our website or used on our website, a record of all browsing behaviour incuding links clicked. This is done via a cookie which is set on your first arrival to our website and the contents of any form you submit to us. Our complete Cookie Policy is highlighted in a separate link.
Information that will help us contact you in the future such as name, company name, address, phone and email.
All personal information disclosed by you to us will be retained securely and we will not seek to append personal data from external sources.
Information on engagement with the emails and SMS messages you receive from us.
The IP address your router freely transmits to our web servers.
Your browser user agent, as freely transmitted by your computer. This includes your browser build information, your device type and your computer’s operating system.

This data is held in a state of the art, highly protected data storage environment within the UK and will be used to:

Improve the content and relevance of what we send to you.
Help improve the content we display on our website.
Answer any questions you may have submitted and retain this information to ensure a fast and effective service in the future.
Provide you with the fastest access to the latest content relevant to you.
Ensure we remain compliant under the terms of the GDPR.

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.

Contact forms

ohlifesbeautiful.com uses Ninja Forms for contact forms. The Ninja Forms Privacy Policy is available at: https://ninjaforms.com/privacy-policy/. Please ensure you have verified the privacy policies before submitting personal information.

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. You can decide to accept, decline or remove cookies using your web browser settings, but you should know that declining the use of cookies can affect your experience of this and other sites. For detailed information on cookies, and how you can choose to allow or prevent sites accessing cookies, see www.allaboutcookies.org.

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.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytic solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

We will use your personal information for the technical adminstration of the website, enhancing your experience of the site, research and development. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties not listed on our list of partners unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

How long we retain your data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Where we have processed your personal data to provide you with communications with consent, we may contact you for at least 12 (twelve) months to ensure you are happy to continue receiving such communications. If you tell us that you no longer wish to receive such communications, your personal data will be removed from our marketing lists (and will be added to a “do not contact” list).

In addition to the above, our cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.

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.

ohlifesbeautiful.com is working hard to ensure it sets an exemplary standard in data management and usage. Specifically, under GDPR 2018, you have the right to request the following:

The right to be informed.
The right of access.
The right to rectification.
The right to erasure.
The right to restrict processing.
The right to data portability.
The right to object.
Rights in relation to automatic decision making and profiling.

For more information on GDPR and your rights, please see https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-protection-reform/overview-of-the-gdpr/.

If you have any questions concerning the processing of your personal data you should contact us at hello@ohlifesbeautiful.com

In the event that you have not received a response within 30 days you have the right to contact The ICO, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF, Email: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email or Telephone: 0303 1231113

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We do not process your personal data in any country outside the EU, however our site may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and other third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note they have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

We use a few services to manage this site and its services:

Form submission: ohlifesbeautiful.com uses Ninja Forms for contact forms. The Ninja Forms privacy policy is available at https://ninjaforms.com/privacy-policy/. Please ensure you have verified the privacy policies before submitting personal information.

Affiliate links: we may use affiliate links to earn a comission if you follow a link and pay for a service as outlined on our Disclosures Page. Affiliate link partners include amazon.com.

Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics (Google inc.): Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google inc. (“Google”), and we use it through Google Tag Manager. Google utilises the data collected to track and examine the sue of this website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. Personal data collected consists of cookies and usage dat. Place of processing is the US, here is their privacy policy, and here is how you can Opt Out from Google Analytics.

Mailchimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC): Mailchimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC. Personal data includes email addres, location and any information captured by this site’s cookies (described above). We do not sell or share your email addresses or any personal information about you. You may unsubscribe or edit your profile (link in any email, or contact us) any time. Place of processing is the US, and here is their Privacy Policy.

Twitter (Twitter inc.): Twitter is a social network, and is used by this site only to embed tweets. Place of processing is the US, place of processing is the US. Here is their privacy policy.

Facebook (Facebook inc.): Facebook is a social network, and is used by this site only if you choose to share an article on your facebook page. Place of processing is the US, and here is their privacy policy.

Instagram (Instagram inc.): Instagram is a social network, and is used by this site only if you choose to follow our Instagram account by clicking the images on this page. Place of processing is the US, and here is their privacy policy.

Pinterest (Pinterest inc.): Pinterest is a social network, and is used by this site only if you choose to follow a link to a Pinterest page from this website. Place of processing is the US, and here is their privacy policy.

Siteground (Siteground inc.): Siteground is a website hosting service. Personal data for hosting this site, and for operation and maintenance purposes, this site and Siteground may collect files that record interactions with the site (system logs) or use for this purpose other personal data such as IP address. Place of processing is the US, and here is their privacy policy.

WP Recipe Maker: We use WP Recipe Maker plugin to optimally display recipes on our website.Bootstrapped Ventures, the developer of WP Recipe Maker, does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin. This is all stored in your local database and not communicated back to us. When comment ratings are enabled we store the rating a user has given to a recipe along with the personal data WordPress core stores.When user ratings are enabled we store a WPRM_User_Voted_%recipe% cookie (with %recipe% the ID of the recipe) that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.When user ratings are enabled we store the IP address upon voting. This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.With the Recipe Submission feature personal data can be collected, depending on the fields that were added to the form. This can include the user email and name. When using the reCAPTCHA feature you will be agreeing to their terms of use and privacy policy.Our cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.

Yoast SEO: We use use Yoast SEO which may collect information such as name, email address, your website’s URL, when you comment or subscribe to an email list, and when you buy our product. Here is their privacy policy.

If you get to this site through another site or clicked to another site from this site, they might collect your personal information. We are not responsible for those privacy policies.

How we protect your data

We have put in place appropriate security measures (including SSL technology) to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have business need-to-know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any aplicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

We will endeavour to ensure your data is transmitted to us using the known best practice approaches. It’s important to note, any data you sent to us is sent at your own risk.

Email and SMS options

ohlifesbeautiful.com uses MailChimp as mentioned above to send email communications, both the mail chimp data centre and its support professionals are located in within the EU. By submitting your information into one ohlifesbeautiful.com, into one of the data capture points, you are confirming the following:

You are doing so in your capacity as a representative of the company or as an individual.
You are over 18 years of age.
You are accepting the relevance of our marketing email communications.
You are providing contact information that will facilitate the communication between company/ohlifesbeautiful.com and you.

Should you wish to stop receiving emails from us

You may use the unsubscribe link, which will be present within the footer of every email and SMS we send to you. Your subscription preferences will be immediately updated.

Changes

We will post changes to the Privacy Policy on this page so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and in what circumstances we disclose it. This policy is updated as on 01/04/2021.

Contact information

If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information, we have about you, you are invited to contact or send an email to: hello@ohlifesbeautiful.com.