This Cookie Policy explains how MichelleHastings.com uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit this website.
Cookies and similar technologies may be used to help the website function, understand how visitors use the site, measure website performance, provide embedded content, support email and marketing activities, protect forms from spam and abuse, and support affiliate tracking.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that may be stored on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website. Cookies can perform different functions, such as remembering preferences, supporting website functionality, measuring website activity, or helping third-party services operate.
Some cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. Other cookies or similar technologies may be used for analytics, embedded content, marketing, affiliate tracking, or other optional purposes.
Your Cookie Choices
When you visit MichelleHastings.com, you may be presented with a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or reject certain categories of cookies and tracking technologies.
MichelleHastings.com uses an opt-in consent model. Optional cookies and recognized non-essential tracking technologies are not treated as permitted by default. Your choices are used to determine which optional technologies may operate on the website.
Your cookie consent preferences are remembered for up to 180 days. After that period, you may be asked to make your selections again.
You may also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please be aware that disabling certain cookies or technologies may affect the way some website features or third-party content function.
Google Analytics 4 and Google Consent Mode
I use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to help me understand how visitors use MichelleHastings.com and to evaluate the performance of my website and content.
MichelleHastings.com uses Google Consent Mode with analytics consent set to denied by default. Before you provide consent for analytics cookies, Google Analytics may operate in a restricted, cookieless mode and send limited signals about website activity without storing analytics cookies on your device. If you consent to analytics cookies, Google Analytics may then use cookies and similar technologies to provide more complete measurement information.
Analytics information helps me understand general website usage patterns, such as which pages and resources visitors find useful, how visitors navigate the site, and how my content performs. I use this information to improve the website and make better decisions about future content.
Google Search Console
I use Google Search Console to understand how MichelleHastings.com performs in Google Search. Search Console provides information such as search queries, impressions, clicks, page performance, and indexing information.
Google Search Console is used as a website-owner reporting and search-performance tool and is not used by me to place tracking cookies on your device.
Email Subscriptions and Kit
I use Kit, formerly known as ConvertKit, to manage email subscriptions, deliver newsletters and email communications, and provide lead magnets or other downloadable resources.
If you subscribe to an email list or request a resource, information such as your name and email address may be processed through Kit. Email communications may also use technologies that help measure whether messages were delivered, opened, or clicked.
These technologies help me understand which emails, topics, and resources are useful to subscribers and improve future communications.
Google reCAPTCHA
Forms on MichelleHastings.com may use Google reCAPTCHA to help protect the website from spam, abuse, and automated submissions.
reCAPTCHA may collect technical, device, browser, and interaction information in order to assess whether a form submission is being made by a person or automated software. Information processed through reCAPTCHA is subject to Google’s own privacy policies and terms.
Embedded YouTube Videos
Some pages on MichelleHastings.com may contain videos embedded from YouTube, a service provided by Google.
Embedded YouTube content is not currently blocked by the website’s cookie-consent content-blocking feature. As a result, when you visit a page containing an embedded YouTube video, YouTube may receive information about your visit or device even if you do not play the video.
If you interact with an embedded video, YouTube may collect additional information and may use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with Google’s and YouTube’s own privacy practices.
Affiliate Links and Tracking
Some content on MichelleHastings.com may contain affiliate links. This means I may earn a commission if you click an affiliate link and make a purchase or complete another qualifying action, at no additional cost to you.
Affiliate programs or their technology providers may use cookies, tracking links, identifiers, or similar technologies to determine that you were referred from MichelleHastings.com and whether a qualifying transaction occurred.
I do not receive sensitive payment information through affiliate links. Any purchase or transaction is completed directly with the third-party merchant or service provider and is subject to that provider’s own privacy and cookie practices.
Third-Party Cookies and Technologies
Some services used on MichelleHastings.com are provided by third parties. These currently include services related to website analytics, email marketing, spam protection, embedded video content, and affiliate tracking.
Third-party providers may use their own cookies or similar technologies when their services are used. I do not control the cookies or data-processing practices of these third parties. Their use of information is governed by their own privacy policies, cookie policies, and terms.
Cookies Currently Used on MichelleHastings.com
The table below lists the cookies and services currently configured in the website’s cookie-consent system, including information about their purposes and durations.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
In addition to the choices available through the cookie consent banner, most web browsers allow you to view, delete, block, or restrict cookies through your browser settings.
Please be aware that blocking or deleting certain cookies may affect how MichelleHastings.com or other websites function.
For general information about cookies and how to manage them, visit All About Cookies.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
I may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the technologies, services, or features used on MichelleHastings.com or to address changes in applicable privacy practices or requirements.
I encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for updates.
Contact
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies and similar technologies are used on MichelleHastings.com, please contact me.
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Email: compliance@michellehastings.com