At Noel Smith Stories, the privacy of my visitors is extremely important to me. This privacy policy describes the type of personal information collected and recorded and how it is used.
Latest update: 10 December 2023
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://noelsmithstories.com.
Location: Northern Ireland
Email: please click here
This website collects some Personal Data from its Users in order to provide the best browsing experience.
Types of Data Collected
Among the types of Personal Data that this website collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: cookies, usage data and email address.
Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy. The personal data may be freely provided by the User, or in the case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this website.
All Data requested by this website is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this website to provide its services. In cases where this website specifies that some Data is not mandatory, users are free not to communicate this Data without any consequences on the availability or functioning of this service.
Users are responsible for any third party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this website and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the Data to the Owner.
Content Commenting
Content commenting services allow the User to make and publish their comments on the content of this website.
Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.
Disqus (Big Head Labs Inc.)
Disqus is a content commenting service provided by Big Head Labs Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour.
WordPress.com Stats (Automattic Inc.)
WordPress.com Stats is an analytic service provided by Automattic Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy
Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc.
Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use 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.
IP address data is anonymous by removing the last octet – click here for more information.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
Affiliate Links
This Website uses affiliate links which link to external websites and applications. As such, this Website contains links to other websites, primarily using affiliate links, and therefore trackable cookies. This site and its Owner are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Please refer to those sites privacy policies for their information.
rewardStyle (rewardStyle, Inc.)
rewardStyle provides sales and marketing services, operates online websites at www.rewardStyle.com. This Website uses affiliate links generated by rewardStyle to create curated, monetised content by the author.
Personal Data collected: Cookies.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
Mailing List or Newsletter
This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other type of contact information to communicate with the User.
By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning this website. Your email address is added to this list as a result of signing up to the newsletter via the subscribe forms on this website. Please read this page, the privacy policy, before signing up.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time via the link within the email.
Newsletter – The Newsletter Plugin
The Newsletter Plugin is an email address management and message sending service which is used to send newsletters.
Personal Data collected: Email Address.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy