Living Pioneer (“Living Pioneer”) operates LivingPioneer.com and may operate other websites. It is Living Pioneer’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Living Pioneer collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Living Pioneer’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Living Pioneer’s visitors use its website. From time to time, may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Living Pioneer also collects potentially personally identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on Living Pioneer blogs/sites. Living Pioneer only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Living Pioneer’s websites choose to interact with Living Pioneer in ways that require Living Pioneer to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that Living Pioneer gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at Living Pioneer to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Living Pioneer are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions.
In each case, Living Pioneer collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Living Pioneer. Living Pioneer does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below. Additionally, visitors can always refuse to supply personally identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Living Pioneer may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Living Pioneer may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Living Pioneer does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below.
Furthermore, Living Pioneer does not re-sell personal information. As per the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), there’s a new requirement to provide information regarding downstream participants. Additionally, this can be found here.
Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information
Living Pioneer discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Living Pioneer’s behalf or to provide services available at Living Pioneer’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Living Pioneer’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Living Pioneer will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Living Pioneer discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Living Pioneer believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Living Pioneer, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of an Living Pioneer website and have supplied your email address, Living Pioneer may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Living Pioneer and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Living Pioneer takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Living Pioneer uses cookies to help Living Pioneer identify and track visitors, their usage of Living Pioneer website, and their website access preferences. Living Pioneer visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies (see: cookiechoices.org) before using Living Pioneer’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Living Pioneer’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
First-party cookies, meaning cookies on this website, are only sometimes set. They are also sometimes called session cookies which are created when initially visiting a website. Usually, this is only required when signing up with the website or for administration purposes only. Living Pioneer could use them for other purposes too.
The website does make use of third party plugins on the WordPress platform. These plugins that are supplied and created by third parties, do, on occasion, set their own third-party cookies. They do this for various reasons include providing site visitor information to the webmaster or in the course of processing information submitted by the visitor on a contact form and sending an email to the webmaster for their response.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics, a web traffic analyzing service, uses its own cookie and sometimes mobile identifiers to enable it to collect data about site visitors. It provides this data to the webmaster, owner(s) and people who help with the site. The collected information about site visitors includes what pages were visited, the average time each visitor remained on the site, and other relevant information.
The data service does aggregate information like gender and age group to provide a rough indication of the demographic and gender mix of the visitors, along with interests. This is the Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting service. Among other things, this helps Living Pioneer to publish content which hopefully is received more receptively by the audience because it suits their gender or average age mix. A Remarketing with Google Analytics feature is also provided for. The number of ad impression(s) (times it is shown) is recorded to help understand how popular one advertisement was vs another advertisement via Google Display Network Impression Reporting.
Visitors can choose to selectively opt out of some features of Google Analytics by following this link. Advertising via Google AdWords and Google AdSense is covered in the Advertising section lower down in this privacy policy. However, it’s possible to modify the Ads Settings (or Ad Settings for mobile apps) too.
Advertising
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to visitors by advertising partners, including Google and Amazon, may set third-party cookies, or use web beacons or mobile identifiers. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about previous visits to this website and other websites.
The information and use of either first-person or third-party cookies and/or mobile identifiers permits ad networks including Google, DoubleClick, its partners, and other advertising networks, to, among other things, check for fraudulent usage, manage advertising frequency, deliver targeted advertisements based on your previous internet browsing history, and provide ad reporting to publishers and/or advertisers.
Ads can be personalized to the visitor. This is done because more relevant advertising matching their interests is believed to be more useful than advertisements on random subjects. Visitors have the option to visit Google’s Ad Settings page to opt out of the personalization of advertising. It should also be possible to opt out of personalization used by other third-party advertisers by accessing the appropriate option on their websites. Alternatively, visit www.aboutads.info as another way to opt out with third-party vendors who use cookies to help personalize the ad experience.
Business Transfers
If Living Pioneer, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Living Pioneer goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Living Pioneer may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Living Pioneer may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Living Pioneer’s sole discretion. Living Pioneer encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a LivingPioneer.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
