Privacy Policy

Hello lovely readers! Due to some recent legislature (I always feel fancy saying that word) passed by multiple different authorities, it is now more important than ever that bloggers (and any company for that matter) include a privacy policy. So here you guys go…your rights to data privacy and transparency matter and I want you to have visibility into how your data is used on this site. 

Please know that I sincerely care about each one of you and do my absolute best to protect your information, each time you are on this site. I will also ONLY recommend products that I know to be superb and helpful – there are enough products out there already that we have to go through. You don’t need someone recommending crappy products to you. I want you to be happy with any and all recommendations you receive from me. 🙂

Privacy Policy

As the owner of this website (the “Site”), PCOS Project (“we” or “us”) understand that your privacy is of critical importance.  This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect from you via the Site and how we use and disclose such information.

Our Use of Cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

1. Advertising – we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you]; and
2. We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Interest-Based Advertising

Advertising

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with AdThrive, LLC (“AdThrive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site.  AdThrive uses standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, AdThrive, Google and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with AdThrive, Google, and our other third party partners.You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org.  However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.  

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing.  If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at pcosprojectblog@gmail.com or contact AdThrive at info@adthrive.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of the sharing of your information for advertising information, click the opt out link provided in the footer of this page. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at info@adthrive.com. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.

Email Addresses

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur, for example, if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, or enter a promotion. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us, and also from time to time to send you emails regarding the Site or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you.  You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the email.

We will not share your email address with any third parties.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), we do not wish to receive your email address, and will delete it you have provided it inadvertently.

Copyright Notice

Please do NOT use the contents of this site for any purposes without the explicit permission from the author and blog owner, Morgan Garcia.

Additional Information

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.

We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.

We agree to comply with CANSPAM policies and honor your rights.     

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at pcosprojectblog@gmail.com.

We’re almost home now! Any regulatory or privacy fans out there reading down here?! I hope so! Your rights are important!

Disclosure Statement

This blog is principally written and edited by me, Morgan Garcia. From time to time, PCOS Project will and does accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and organizations.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. 

The owner of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owner. If I claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, I will only endorse products or services that I believe, based on my expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

Terms of Service and Additional Disclosures

Although I would love to assume that everyone that comes to this site intends to foster knowledge expansion among the PCOS community, we have all seen the nasty trolls that lurk and take away the fun for everyone. For that reason, I would like to protect PCOS project with the following statements:

Here is goes:

1. Copyright: PCOS Project is owned and administered by Morgan Garcia. All rights reserved.

2. Content: I am responsible for the content of this site, not including visitor comments or the content of individual contributors. Other than visitor comments and specifically stated guest contributions, PCOS Project reflects the personal views and opinions of Morgan Garcia.

3. Credit: I make every effort to give proper credit to any sources of content or information in this blog. If you feel you or another source lacks credit, please contact me as soon as possible! No one likes a plagiarist.

4. Accuracy and Validity: Believe it or not, people make mistakes from time to time! True life, I am far from perfect and found my cell phone in the fridge the other day. But, I try to make all facts and information as accurate as possible. In addition, PCOS Project is a work in progress. The world is an ever-changing place and medicine is ever-evolving, which means that content can become outdated quickly. While I hope to avoid having outdated material on this site, I can’t guarantee that everything is timely. I will certainly try my best, but I cannot say that you can always rely on the timeliness or accuracy of the information at PCOS Project.

5. Comments: I am not responsible for any comments made by contributors in the Comments section. Rude or offensive comments will not be published or will be immediately deleted. I will exercise my right to moderate and edit comments which are deemed to be offensive, childish or just plain dumb as a box of rocks. Because this is a supportive and loving community, I do not think this will be necessary.

6. Liability: As a reader, I ask that you do not hold me liable for libel (say that three times fast – but really, it’s actually kinda hard!) or defamation in the content of PCOS Project. In addition, there is no intention to do harm by hosting content at PCOS Project. The content at PCOS Project is not to be taken as fact nor absolute (though I do try my best to cite all relevant medical literature and give you the most up to date information that I can). If people use the information and somehow are injured, I am not to be held responsible. The sites that PCOS Project links to via hyperlinks are not under my control. Those sites are responsible for the content of those sites. I wish that I could say that I was in control of the internet…that would be pretty awesome, not gonna lie. But sadly, this is untrue and I am not the queen of the internet. Nor do I have control over certain things that my site links to.

So there it is. I’ve done the thing. Aren’t you glad we got that out of the way? Phew!