Disclosure

This policy is valid from May 5, 2018

Disclosure and Privacy Policy

I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Disclosure and Privacy Policy is to inform you of our policies, including the personally identifiable information I may collect and how it may be used.

I may change this Policy from time to time so please check this page regularly to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using this website, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy.

Who are we?

Mother Natured is an online parenting site founded by Penny Whitehouse. I share nature and animal activities, crafts, and lifestyle ideas for you and your children. I am based in Australia but we have followers from all over the world.

How your information may be used

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

• To operate and maintain the Website,
• To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
• To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
• To respond to your comments or inquiries;
• To provide you with user support;
• To track and measure advertising on the Website;
• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

What information do we collect and how is it used?

Newsletters

If you choose to join our newsletter via a sign-up form on Mother Natured then your email address is required so that you can be sent the emails. We also ask for your First Name although this isn't required so that we may address you personally in our emails.

Your data is collected and then passed to our email service provider Campaign Monitor.

You may unsubscribe at any time from our newsletters using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email or you can email us at [email protected] and ask that you be removed. Please make sure that you are using the same email address as you receive the emails from to do this.

Within the email service provider, we use tags to track the pages that you visit and actions that you take within the emails so that we can provide a more personalized email service to you.

We send emails 1 - 3 times a month and with our tracking try and make these as relevant to you as possible. From time to time we may include promotions for products.

When you purchase from Mother Natured

If you have purchased or downloaded a printable from Mother Natured then your details are stored either by our stored via a Third Party provider or Woo Commerce.

We ask for three pieces of information for downloads direct from our store - country (to apply EU VAT if necessary), First Name and Email Address.

All payments are made via PayPal or Stripe which does not retain any financial information once the transaction has been processed.

Products received through Woo Commerce: Your name and email address are collected for the purpose of providing you with the product you have purchased and you are opted-in to our newsletter (see above what data is collected and processed for newsletters). You can opt-out at any time. The data held in Woo Commerce includes your name, email address, IP address and PayPal or Stripe email and the product you bought. We can delete this information upon request but for financial and legal reasons copies of the invoices are retained.

Please see Woo Commerce, Paypal and Stripe's privacy and data protection policies for more information on how they collect and process your personal data.

Third-party use of personal information

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

Mother Natured currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.

Convert Kit – this service is used for the delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.  Please refer to Convert Kit's privacy policy for further information.

Woo Commerce - this service helps deliver free and paid products straight to your email. They store your name and email address for purposes of delivering products.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

Anonymous Data

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

Publicly Visible Information

If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible.  Your email address will never be available publicly.  You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account.

Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.

IMPORTANT: In your comment, you should avoid leaving information of a personal nature and it is recommended that you do this on any website you comment on.

Cookies

The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

Advertising

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits to the Website.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

Mother Natured is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com.  As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Mother Natured is a participant in the Etsy Awin Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Etsy.com.  As part of this program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Etsy, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Rights Related to your Personal Information

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at [email protected] to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to [email protected]

Amend – You may contact us at [email protected] to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to [email protected]

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Sensitive Person Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children's Information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Activity Safety

The information contained on this website or its attachments is to the best of my knowledge accurate at the time of authorisation in August 2019. Any representation, statement, opinion or advice, expressed or implied on this website is made in good faith for general information purposes and on the basis that Penny Whitehouse is permissible by law, not liable (whether by reason of negligence, lack of care or otherwise) to any person for any damage or loss whatsoever that has occurred or may occur in relation to that person taking or not taking (as the case may be) action in respect of any representations, statement or advice referred to above.

Contact Information

At any time, please contact me at [email protected] for questions related to this Privacy Policy.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The cookie may collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at the Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site.

The Website may collect IP addresses and location information to serve personalized ads and pass it to Mediavine. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. You may also visit https://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and https://optout.networkadvertising.org/# to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

Mediavine partners with the following data processors:

1. Pubmatic. You may find Pubmatic’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Pubmatic and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Statistical information and other non-cookie technologies (such as eTags and web or browser cache) may be used by third parties on this Website. Browser settings that block cookies may have no effect on these technologies, but you may clear your cache to delete such trackers. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected.
2. Criteo. You may find Criteo’s privacy policy through this link. The data collected on the Website may be transferred to Criteo and its demand partners for interest-based advertising. Criteo may collect, access, and use non-identifying data to improve the Criteo Technology and other Criteo products, programs, and/or services. This non-identifying data may include on-site user behavior and user/page content data, URLs, statistics, or internal search queries. The non-identifying data are collected through the ad call and stored with a Criteo cookie for a maximum period of 13 months.
3. Pulsepoint. You may find Pulsepoint’s privacy policy through this link.
4. LiveRamp. You may find LiveRamp’s privacy policy through this link. When you use the Website, we share information that we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, de-identified form), IP address or information about your browser or operating system, with LiveRamp Inc, and its group companies (‘LiveRamp’). LiveRamp may use a cookie on your browser and match your shared information to their on- and offline marketing databases and those of its advertising partners to create a link between your browser and information in those other databases. This link may be shared by our partners globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. cross device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may in turn link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of LiveRamp’s targeted advertising, please go here: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
5. RhythmOne. You may view RhythmOne’s privacy policy through this link. RhythmOne uses cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as mobile device identifiers and digital fingerprinting) to provide its services. RhythmOne may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the following webpage: https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
6. District M. You may find District M’s privacy policy through this link.
7. YieldMo. You may find YieldMo’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Yieldmo or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link.
8. The Rubicon Project. You may find Rubicon’s privacy policy through this link. If you want to opt out of receiving interest based ads from Rubicon or exercise your right under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, you may do so through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page.
9. Amazon Publisher Services. You may find Amazon Publisher Services’ privacy policy through this link.
10. AppNexus. You may find the AppNexus privacy policy through this link.
11. OpenX. You may find OpenX’s privacy policy through this link.
12. Verizon Media formerly known as Oath. You may find Verizon Media’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
13. TripleLift. You may find TripleLift’s privacy policy through this link. To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising (including retargeting) from TripleLift’s services through the use of cookies in your current browser and for more information on what it means to opt-out, please go to www.triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out.
14. Index Exchange. You may find Index Exchange’s privacy policy through this link. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising.
15. Sovrn. You may find Sovrn’s privacy policy through this link.
16. GumGum. You may find GumGum’s privacy policy through this link. GumGum may (i) use place and use cookies on end users’ browsers or use web beacons to collect information about end users who visit such Publisher Websites and (ii) link such collected end user information to other end user information provided by third parties in order to deliver targeted Advertisements to such end users.
17. Digital Remedy. You may find Digital Remedy’s privacy policy through this link.
18. MediaGrid. You may find MediaGrid’s privacy policy through this link. MediaGrid may collect and store information about end-user interactions with this website through cookies, advertising IDS, pixels and server-to-server connections. MediaGrid was receive the following information: the page an End-User has requested and the referring/exit pages; Timestamp information (i.e., the date and time the End-User has visited the page); IP address; mobile device identifier; device model; device operating system; browser type; carrier; gender; age; geolocation (including GPS coordinates); clickstream data; cookie information; first-party identifiers'; and hashed email addresses; demographic and inferred interest information; and post-conversion data (from both online and offline behaviour). Some of this data is gathered from this website and others is gathered from advertisers. MediaGrid uses this data to provide its services. You may also utilize the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page to opt-out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising or review their privacy policy for more information.
19. RevContent - You may find RevContent’s privacy policy through this link. RevContent may collect information about your browser or device, including browser type, IP Address, device type, user agent string, and operating system. RevContent also collects information about the websites you visit through their services, such as date and time of access and specific pages accessed and the content and ads you click on. You may opt-out of any personalization track by opting-out of RevContent’s data collection.
20. Centro, Inc. - You may find Centro’s privacy policy through this link. You may find opt-out information for Centro’s services through the privacy policy link.
21. 33Across, Inc. - You may find 33Across’s privacy policy through this link. To opt-out of personalized advertising, please visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
22. Conversant. LLC - You may find Conversant’s privacy policy through this link. Conversant uses information that does not directly identify you, such as information about your browser type, time and date of visit, your browsing or transaction activity, the subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over, and a unique identifier (such as a cookie string, or a unique advertising identifier provided by your mobile device) during your visits to this and other websites and apps in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. Conversant may use technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies to collect this information. To learn more about interest-based advertising, or to opt-out, you can visit www.youronlinechoices.eu or https://www.networkadvertising.org/.

Competition terms and Conditions

1. The promoter of the Nature Play 12 Days of Christmas Competition (“the Competition”) is Mother Natured (“MN”) ABN  of 68 Parkview Crs, Cornubia.
2. The Competition will commence on  Wednesday 1 December 2021 at  8:00AM and conclude on Sunday 12 December at 5:00PM (“the Competition Period”).
3. To be eligible for entry into the Competition, entrants must open and click the link of the email related to that prize within 24 hours of delivery.
4. You enter this Competition at your own risk and by entering the Competition you are deemed to have accepted these Terms and Conditions.
5. The Competition is subject to any terms and conditions of each promoter or any third party providers. The prize will be posted to you by the product owner.
6. Employees or immediate family members of MN or participating brands are excluded from making an entry into this Competition.
7. The winners will be drawn by random selection, subject to the Terms and Conditions being complied with.
8.  One entry is allowed per email subscribed to MN.
9. Brands participating in the Competition must send goods to winners within 7 days.
10. MN is not liable should winners not receive their goods from participating brands.
11. The prize is not transferrable, not exchangeable and not redeemable for cash.
12. The Winners from eligible entrants will be drawn no later than 26 hours after the email was initially sent. ALL twelve prizes will be announced together, on 14/12/21 and winners will be contacted. First names will only be announced.
13. Winners must provide their address to MN, of which it will be passed on to the brand for postage of the prize. Your personal information that is provided for the purposes of this Competition, will be collected and used for the purposes of being contacted and prizes sent if you are a successful winner of the Competition only.
14.  The prizes include:
    1. Nature Christmas Play Pack from Mother Natured
    2. Nature Tool Kit by The Little Sunshine Australia
    3. Nature Arts and Crafts Pack from Mother Natured
    4. Play Tray by Crafty Little Folk
    5. Mushroom Amulet by Afolha
    6. Nature Yoga Yards from Mother Natured
    7. Organic Fairy Flower Confetti by Lotus and Co.
    8. Minibeast Nature Play Pack from Mother Natured
    9. Botties and Baby Holder by STONZ
    10. $50 voucher from Mother Natured
    11. Nature Kaleidoscope by Bobr Shop
    12. Nature Play Club Yearly Membership from Mother Natured
15. MN reserves the right to verify the validity of entries and to disqualify any entry which, in the opinion of MN, tampers with the entry process, or who has, in the opinion of MN, engaged
    in conduct in entering the Competition which is fraudulent, misleading, deceptive or generally damaging to the goodwill or reputation of the Competition and/or MN. MN reserves the right
    to disqualify a Winner if MN becomes aware that the Winner and/or the Winner’s entry is of a type described in this clause.
16. If for any reason a winner does not take or claim a prize (or an element of a prize) by 20 December 2021, then the prize (or that element of the prize) will be forfeited, as MN reserves the right to allocate a new winner.
17.  The Winners only will be notified.
18. MN accepts no liability in the event that the Winners are unable to be contacted.
19. MN shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever which is suffered (including but not limited to indirect or consequential loss) or for any personal injury suffered or sustained in
    connection with any prize/s except for any liability which cannot be excluded by law. MN is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate information.
20.  If for any reason this competition is not capable of running as planned, MN reserves the right in its sole discretion to take any action that may be available, and to cancel, terminate, modify
    or suspend the competition, subject to any direction given under State Regulation.
21. Your personal information (if any) will be collected, used and disclosed in accordance with MN
    Privacy Policy (a copy of which is available on this page) to enable MN to administer and promote this Competition. Entrants may contact MN at
    [email protected] to request access to any of the collected personal information that is held. If an Applicant does not truthfully provide all requested personal information, MN may determine that they are not eligible to receive the prizes in this Competition.
22. All entries and any copyright subsisting in the entries become and remain the property of MN who may publish or cause to be published any of the entries received.
23. MN reserves the right to amend, cancel or suspend this Competition if an event beyond the control of MN corrupts or affect the administration security, fairness, integrity or proper
    conduct of this competition.
24. Any cost associated with accessing the promotional website is the entrant’s responsibility and is dependent on the Internet service provider used.
25. A breach of any of these terms will make the entrant’s entry void and null, and will not be considered by MN.

Last updated: November 2021