Privacy policy last updated: June 11, 2024
OWNER AND DATA CONTROLLER
Midwestern Miss (“us,” “we,” or “our”) operates https://www.midwesternmiss.com (the “Site”).
Contact email: [email protected]
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This site collects some personal data from its users. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices for collecting, using, and disclosing personal data from Site users. By submitting personal data to us, you agree to the use of your data as follows.
INFORMATION COLLECTION, PURPOSE AND USE
While using our site, we may request your name, email address, cookies, usage data, and password. We may use your personal information to:
- Send you our newsletters from time to time, weekly
- Ensure that content from our site is presented most effectively for you and your computer
- Provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us that may interest you
- Interact with external social networks and platforms (social media widgets and share bars)
- Carry out remarketing and behavioral targeting (including display ads)
- Carry out commercial affiliation (display ads)
Log Data
Like many site operators, we collect information your browser sends whenever you visit our site. This information includes your IP address, browser type, pages visited, date and time, and other statistics. We may use third-party services such as Google Analytics to collect, monitor, and analyze this data.
WHAT COOKIES ARE
Cookies are text files containing a small amount of data, including an anonymous unique identifier. Websites send cookies to your browser, and your device stores them on the hard drive.
Using cookies to enhance your website experience is standard practice. Like many sites, we use “cookies” to recognize, collect, and track information relevant to your site usage. These are known as “first-party cookies.” We may also gather information through cookies set by third parties, known as “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies perform advertising and analytics tasks, enabling interactive features like sharing or commenting. Some third parties collect statistics anonymously and in aggregate, which may not require user consent.
The information that our first-party or third-party cookies gather may include details about your devices, browsing actions, and patterns. We may collect data such as your computer type, internet service provider, browser type, location, IP address, visit date and time, viewed pages, and site traffic pattern. We will ask for your consent to use cookies, except those strictly necessary, upon your first and subsequent visits.
WHAT COOKIES WE USE
We use the following categories of cookies on the site:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for browsing the site and using its features. They save your session, log-in details, and other information necessary to perform your requests and carry out other activities vital for the site’s operation, such as traffic distribution. These cookies also save browsing preferences and optimize your browsing experience.
Analytics cookies
These cookies collect information about your site use, such as browsing actions and patterns, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, and your traffic pattern. We use this information to monitor and analyze web traffic to the site. User behaviors may be recognized, collected, and tracked. We use Google Analytics to monitor and analyze the site’s web traffic. Google utilizes the data identified, coded, and tracked on the site to prepare reports on traffic activities. This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. Google may use the information collected to personalize the ads of its advertising network and may share it with other services.
Security cookies
These cookies are essential to our security features. They allow us to detect malicious activities or activities that breach our terms of use.
Customization cookies
These cookies save information and details, such as your username, to optimize your experience and provide personal features.
Social media cookies and pixels
These cookies enable you to share your activity on social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, or other external platforms directly from the site. Cookies may still be recognized, collected, and tracked on the pages where buttons, widgets, or other applications are installed, even when you do not actively use them. The interaction and information collected through the site are subject to your privacy settings for each social network and external platform. You are encouraged to refer to the privacy policy of the relevant social network or external platform and log out from the respective network or platform to ensure that the information collected on the site is not tracked back to your profile.
Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets
The Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets are applications that allow interaction with the Facebook social network.
Twitter Tweet button and Twitter social widgets
The Twitter Tweet button and Twitter social widgets are applications that allow interaction with the Twitter social network.
YouTube video widget
YouTube is a video-sharing website that allows this site to incorporate video content into its pages and posts.
Social media pixels
We reserve the right to use social media pixels. These pixels enable social media sites like Facebook to track visitors to external websites and tailor their advertising activities to target users while they browse their social media networks. For information regarding these pixels, you are encouraged to refer to the privacy policy of the relevant social network.
Facebook pixel
Facebook pixel connects the activity performed on the site with the Facebook advertising network, including Instagram and Audience ads.
Targeting or advertising cookies
These cookies record your browsing actions and patterns on the site, such as the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. The information recognized, collected, and tracked by these cookies makes our site and the advertising displayed through links or banners more relevant to your interests. For the same purpose, this information may also be shared with third parties, such as Google Adsense, Mediavine, and AdThrive.
HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES
You can accept or reject cookies according to our Privacy Policy and this Cookie Policy. Strictly necessary cookies may not be dismissed since they enable you to browse the site and use its features. Should you reject cookies, you can still use the site, although certain features and functionalities may not be available, and specific areas may be restricted.
In addition to what is indicated within this Cookie Policy, you can manage cookie preferences directly from within your browser and prevent third parties from installing cookies. It is also possible to delete cookies installed in the past through browser preferences, including those that may have saved the initial consent for this site to install cookies. You can find information about managing cookies in the most used browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer) on the browser’s website of your choice.
Regarding cookies installed by third parties, users can manage their preferences and withdraw their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), using the means provided in the third party’s privacy policy, or contacting the third party.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please get in touch with us at [email protected] or via our contact form: Contact Form.
DATA STORAGE
By submitting your data, you agree to this transfer, storage, or processing. We will take all necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and according to this privacy policy.
DATA RETENTION
We process and store your data for as long as necessary for the purpose they were collected. Therefore:
- Personal data collected related to the performance of a contract between us and the user will be retained until such contract has been entirely performed.
- Personal data collected for our legitimate interests will be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes.
- We may retain personal data longer if the user has consented to such processing and does not withdraw such consent.
- We may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever necessary to perform a legal obligation or upon an authority’s order.
Once the retention period expires, personal data will be deleted, and some of your rights (i.e., the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, and the right to data portability) cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention period. You may find specific information regarding your rights within the relevant section of this Privacy Policy or by contacting us at [email protected] or via our contact form: Contact Form.
THIRD-PARTY DISCLOSURE
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users (such as, for example, [email protected]), so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR
Users based in the European Union have the right to do the following:
- Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given consent to process their data.
- Object to data processing. Users have the right to object to data processing if it is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
- Access their data. Users have the right to learn if