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Limitation of Liability
Anastasia (Anna) Sakawsky, The House & Homestead Online Services and Modern Homesteading Magazine© are not liable for any damages whatsoever arising out of your access to, or inability to access, or use the Modern Homesteading Magazine website, digital magazine, email messages or affiliated online products. We are not responsible for any viruses, malware, or any other issues that arise from opening or downloading any of our emails, pages on the blog or links to or from other sites.
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Privacy Policy
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The House & Homestead (thehouseandhomestead.com) is the parent company of Modern Homesteading Magazine (modernhomesteadingmagazine.com), and is the data controller responsible for your personal data. Our contact information is as follows:
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What personal information do we collect and how do we use this information?
When you visit this site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including the type of device you are using (ie. mobile, desktop or tablet), your IP address, region and timezone, and any cookies associated with your device. We may also collect information on specific pages you visit as you browse this website, what websites or search terms referred you to this site and other information about how you interact with this site. We use this information to track visitor usage and to optimize and enhance our website to best suit our readers’ preferences and needs.
We also collect and store personal data that you voluntarily submit to us when you either subscribe to Modern Homesteading Magazine, submit a contact form on our website or on any of our social media platforms or communicate with us directly through email or social media messaging. We only collect as much information as is necessary to provide you with the services you request or subscribe to, including but not limited to your name, email address, general demographic information (including your region, timezone and IP address), payment information (for paid subscriptions) and any other preferences you indicate through your subscription or communications with us.
We use and store this information for the purposes of communicating with you and delivering relevant and requested content, promotions, advertisements and special offers to you. Our legal basis for collecting this information is so that we can provide you with the services that you consent to and request from us when you submit a form or communicate directly with us, as well as for our legitimate interests which include replying to communications sent to us, fulfilling our end of any legal contracts with you and keeping records in order to to establish, pursue or defend any legal claims that may arise at any time.
We will never sell your personal data to any third-party recipients and will never distribute or otherwise share any of your personal data with anyone other than that which is necessary to share with our direct affiliates, partners and service providers.
How we collect personal information
Cookies
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We may also use third-party advertising companies who may use cookies to customize the advertisements you see when you visit this site. We do not share any personal information with any of these third-party advertising companies.
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Email Delivery Services Provider
This website uses a third-party email delivery services provider in order to maintain email communications with our subscribers and fulfill any contracts with you.
When you voluntarily enter your information in exchange for a product, service or download, whether paid or free, or when you subscribe to our mailing list, your data is stored by this email marketing services provider in order for us to fulfill our contract with you, which may or may not include providing you with any products, services or downloads you have requested. Your information is stored here for no longer than the necessary and reasonable amount of time that it takes for us to fulfill our contract with you. If you subscribe to our mailing list, your information will be stored indefinitely or until you voluntarily unsubscribe from our mailing list, which you are free to do at any time.
Currently, this website uses the services of ActiveCampaign for delivery of email newsletters, updates and promotional campaigns. For more information on how ActiveCampaign collects and stores personal data and to view their privacy policy, click here.
Social Media Sharing
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We use a Twitter Tweet widget on our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
We also use a Pinterest Save widget on our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Your Privacy Rights
Under current data protection laws, you have the right to request access to or rectification and erasure of any or all of your personal data. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data and the right to withdraw consent at any time if consent has been given.
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