All policies below are valid from 01 June 2013.

Gift of Curiosity is a personal blog written and edited by Katie Stokes. For questions about this blog, please contact Katie.

Purpose

My primary aim at Gift of Curiosity is to provide parents, caregivers, and teachers with ideas for sparking their children’s creativity and learning. To accomplish this goal, I share activities my kids and I have done together, I offer printable materials, and I highlight great products that are likely to be of interest to my readers.

My secondary aim is to generate enough income to cover my expenses (e.g., blog hosting services, clip art) and provide a modest income. For these reasons, I accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.  I may also sell my own educational products.

Integrity

Integrity is important to me. Clicking on any of the advertisements or links, or buying any of the recommended products, will NOT cost you any additional money due to my affiliate membership. Instead, I simply receive a small commission – thank you!! Please be assured that while I may make money from this site, I have not and will not do so in a way that disadvantages you as a buyer. I will also not recommend products in my posts that I have not personally used or researched sufficiently to believe they would benefit my readers.

Gift of Curiosity 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 linking to Amazon.com.

Gift of Curiosity abides by word of mouth marketing standards. I believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. If the compensation received could influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog, that content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

From time to time I may be compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though I may receive compensation for posts or advertisements, I always give my honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

Privacy

The privacy of Gift of Curiosity’s visitors is extremely important to me. This section outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected by Gift of Curiosity (www.giftofcuriosity.com) and how it is used. Gift of Curiosity does not sell your personal information – I don’t like it when my personal information is sold, and I would never sell your personal information either.

Personal information: When you order a printable, we collect your name and email address to provide electronic delivery of the materials you ordered and follow up on your order. If you leave a comment, we collect your email address (and optionally your website address) to respond to your comment if needed. If you enter a giveaway, we ask for your name and email address so we can notify you if you are the winner. When you subscriber to our newsletter, we collect your email address in order to be able to send email to you with activity ideas and notifications about new printables.

Log files: Like many other websites, Gift of Curiosity makes use of log files. Within a log file the following information can be found: internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks. None of this information would allow us to personally identify you. Instead, information in the log files is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement around the site, and gather demographic information to better serve our readers.

Cookies: Gift of Curiosity uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information about which pages the user accesses or visits, and customize webpage content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies on our site. Our advertising partners include (but are not necessarily limited to): AdThrive, Amazon.com, and Google AdSense. These third-party ad servers or ad networks may use technologies such as cookies or JavaScript to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see. Gift of Curiosity has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. Gift of Curiosity’s privacy policy does not apply to, and cannot control the activities of, other advertisers or web sites. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Gift of Curiosity reserves the right to change this policy at any time without notice. If you have any questions, please contact me at katie@giftofcuriosity.com.

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.

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.

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 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 icon. (Available in the EU.)