Here at laurenhamel.com, personal privacy is taken very seriously. As a general rule laurenhamel.com does not collect your personal information unless you choose to provide that information. When you do choose to provide your personal information, you are giving laurenhamel.com your permission to use that information for the stated purposes listed in this privacy policy. If you choose not to provide your personal information, that's okay too, but your ability to use the feautures and/or services provided on this website may be limited.

Generally, the information requested by laurenhamel.com will be used to provide a website feature and/or service to you, such as commenting, support, or providing future content better tailored to your interests and needs. A description of laurenhamel.com’s intended use for any personal information collected, means by which your personal information may be collected, security measures laurenhamel.com taken in order to protect your personal information, and ways in which you can grant or revoke your consent for the collection and use of your personal information will be fully described in the Privacy Notice section of this privacy policy.

Third-Party Integrations and Social Media Plugins

laurenhamel.com uses commenting and social media plugins and third-party integrations. These third-party services are used to enable visitor interactions with website content and to promote a community on social media. These third-party services may also be used to measure the number of visitors to this website, to interact with visitors on this site, and to make the website more useful to visitors.

In such cases, the third-party application may request an email address, username, password, internet protocol (IP) address, and/or geographic location for account registration or sign-in purposes. laurenhamel.com does not use these third-party applications and/or services to collect personal information from individuals. Any personal information collected by these third-party applications will not be stored or transmitted by laurenhamel.com, and laurenhamel.com has no control over or access to your login information or any other sensitive personal information provided to third-party application.

Tracking, Analytics, and Customizations

laurenhamel.com may use cookies to provide a customized user experience on the site. A cookie is a small file that a website transfers to your computer to allow your browser to remember information about your last session on a website. Your computer only shares information in the cookie with the specific website that provided it, and no other website can request that information. laurenhamel.com also uses third-party analytics services like Google Analytics to gather this information for anlysis.

laurenhamel.com may also collect and temporarily store certain information about your visit to learn more about how you interact with the website. This information is used to help better align this website's content and design with your needs. The information these cookies may collect include:

1. The domain you accessed the website from
2. Your computer’s IP address
3. The date and time you accessed the site
4. The operating system of your computer
5. The browser you’re using to access the site
6. The URLs of the pages you visit on the site
7. Your username, if you’ve logged into the site
8. The URL of the site you came from

Choice, Access, and Redress

You can do the following at any time by contacting the owner of this website:

1. Ask for a list of personal information we have about you, if any.
2. Request a change, correction, or deletion of your personal information.
3. Request that we avoid collecting anything in the future (opt-out).

If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your machine, you have the option to turn cookies off in your browser. However, keep in mind that turning off cookies may impact how this website functions. Disabling browser cookies will also impact how other websites you visit store browser cookies as well.

If you believe at any point that we are not following this privacy policy as stated, please contact the owner of this site immediately.