Privacy Policy
Who are we?
The Larks and Peregrinations website at www.distractedbirder.com. Really it is just a lady who is trying to survive a pandemic by developing a blog. It’s cheaper than therapy.
Personal Data Collection
Comments
When visitors leave comments on this 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 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 and 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.
This site uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by using a corresponding setting in their internet browser. Already set cookies may be deleted at any time within a user’s internet browser. It’s possible that deactivation of cookies in your Internet browser could impact functionality of this site.
Advertising and Affiliate Programs
This site may engage in affiliate marketing. This is done by embedding affiliate links into the site’s pages or posts. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
This site is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program. It is designed as a mechanism for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, this site will post custom links to track referrals to the Amazon website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Third-Party Data Use
This site uses the following third-party service provider:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. Review www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ for additional information about how Google Analytics uses data.
At this time, personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. Except when required by law, this site will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely, to allow automatic recognition and approval.
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). The site administrator can also see and edit that information.
Users should never post any personal identifiable or sensitive information on this site.
Data Rights
If you have an account or have left comments, you can request to receive a file of the personal data retained, including any data you have provided to the site. 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.
Please use the contact information found on this site to submit any such request.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content. 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.
Media
If you upload images to this site, you should avoid uploading images with location data. Other users can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Data Review
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.