Why Have A Privacy Policy On My Small Blog About Quilting

Seriously, I am NOT a lawyer though during disagreements with my husband he says, 

"You should have been an attorney!" Guess that means I'm good at arguing?

So...why have a privacy policy on my small blog about quilting?
Some say we don't need one and some say we do.

I have no idea, but this is what I read on one of the gazillion views about what

we may or may not need to be doing to be GDPR compliant.

Why have a privacy policy to be GDPR compliant?

A few reasons are because...

Our blog comments may include a name, email address, and/or IP address.

We may have 3rd party hosting like Bloglovin', etc.

We may have email signup forms like FeedBurner or Mailchimp.

We may have contact forms.

We may have plugins or tools for traffic stats like Google Analytics.

I am confident that Google will eventually get us BlogSpot users up to speed,

so I'll not be rushing or threatening to switch to another blog based site because they 

have their issues, too, and I'm not willing to exchange one problem for another.

Unless BlogSpot doesn't fix it and make my blog life easier.

Hang on for a while and it will be worked out.

It almost always is.

I like my blog how it is and I like the nice people who visit.

I want it back the way it was...easy.
Stay calm and keep blogging. I'd miss you if you go away.

UPDATE: Google announced that it is aware of the problems and is working
towards a solution that will hopefully arrive next week.  Yay!

Just Let Me Quilt's Privacy Policy

Apparently it is possibly a requirement that we tell our bloggers that we have a 

PRIVACY POLICY. I take this new GDPR ruling seriously, but

since I am a little blogger and I don't have an attorney or IT guru on staff,

this is the best I can do to let you know I take your blog friendship seriously.

Why have a privacy policy?

A few reasons are because...

Our blog comments may include a name, email address, and/or IP address.

We may have plugins or tools for traffic stats like Google Analytics

We may have 3rd party hosting like Bloglovin', etc.

We may have email signup forms like FeedBurner or Mailchimp.

We may have contact forms.

To the best of my knowledge, I don't offer cookies on my blog.

You can stop cookies by turning them off in your own browser settings.

I don't knowingly or willingly share your information to third-parties,
though I do use Bloglovin and Feedburner...they might be third-party.

I have affiliate links on my blog, but I have no control over them storing your info or not

if you click on the link. I don't get rich on those affiliate links, so if you're worried about

them storing your info, please don't click on the links. Go directly to their website.

I don't store your information unless you willingly share it with me to contact you later.

The information may include your name, email address, and blog URL.

If you don't want me knowing who you are, please don't comment.

If you do comment, I won't track you down if you don't leave me a way to contact you.

You can always email me privately if you don't want your name in my comment section.
My computer is password protected to prevent someone sneaking into my house
 and taking your information should they steal my computer. 

I will link to your blog during blog hops. By sharing that information with me

in a request to join the hop, I take that as you giving me permission to share your link.

I may put a link to your blog in my post if you share something that makes me smile.

Please let me know if you don't like the traffic coming from my blog to your blog.

I'll quickly remove the link at your request.

I have no control over someone taking info from my blog for their own use,

or for publishing on other websites without my permission.

It's called stealing/infringing on copyrights in my world, unless they ask permission to use it.

I won't send you newsletters you haven't signed up for. 

I don't have a newsletter, anyway.

If you signed up for notifications of my blog posts, I take that as

agreeing to receive them since you signed up for them.

This privacy policy will probably change once I know what I really need to do.

For now, please hang on until this whole thing gets figured out.

I have faith that it will...hopefully.

Carol Swift

Just Let Me Quilt