Effective Date: Oct 16, 2025
Welcome to Home Decor Glen. Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of information that are collected and recorded by Home Decor Glen, accessible from https://homedecorglen.com/, and how we use it.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regard to the information that they shared and/or collected on Home Decor Glen. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://homedecorglen.com/. We are a blog dedicated to home decor ideas and inspiration.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information from you in several ways, including when you provide it to us directly and when we collect it automatically through your use of our site.
a) Personal Information You Provide to Us:
- Comments: When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as your name and email address), and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) 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.
- Contacting Us: If you contact us directly (e.g., via a contact form or email), we may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
b) Information We Collect Automatically (Usage Data):
Like many other websites, we make use of log files and analytics tools. The information we collect automatically includes:
- Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
- Browser type and version
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- Date and time stamps
- Referring/exit pages
- Number of clicks and pages visited
This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement on the website, and gather demographic information. This data is not linked to any personally identifiable information.
3. Cookies and Web Beacons
We use ‘cookies’ to enhance your experience. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. These cookies are used to store information, including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
- Comments: 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. These cookies will last for one year.
- Analytics: We use cookies to collect data for analytics purposes, as described in the section below.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
4. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track and report website traffic. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that helps us understand how our visitors engage with our website. It collects information anonymously.
- What it does: Google Analytics uses cookies to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Home Decor Glen.
- Google’s Privacy Policy: Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- How to Opt-Out: You can opt-out of having your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity. You can download it here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
5. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
- Operate and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Respond to your comments and inquiries
- Prevent spam and protect the security of our website
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website
6. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos from YouTube, images from Pinterest, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had 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.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Analytics records are retained for a period set within our Google Analytics account, after which they are automatically deleted.
8. Your Data Rights
If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. 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.
To make such a request, please contact us at the email address provided below.
9. Data Security
The security of your data is important to us. We use security measures like SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to encrypt the connection between your browser and our server. However, please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
10. Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:
Email: support@homedecorglen.com