Our Policy

Who we are

We are 59° North Family, a website owned by Chloe & Matt OÜ. Our website address is https://59northfamily.com.

Disclosure

59° North Family may receive revenue through sponsored posts or affiliate links to cover the costs of running a website. All sponsored posts will be identified in the post, and any opinions and experiences on any free products received will be honest and of our own. All sponsored posts are written by 59° North Family. We don’t accept paid guest posting on this blog.

Content and Images

All text, images, and content presented on this website are the property of 59° North Family unless noted otherwise. Please ask permission before using any photos from this website (email us, please!). Using photos and failure to give a backlink and credit this website as the source is a copyright violation. Copying any text from this website (59° North Family) is strictly prohibited. All of our material is copyright protected. All rights reserved.

Any photos and/or images not taken/created by 59° North Family are properly credited and linked to the source. Notice something improperly credited? Please send us an email and we will fix it right away.

Disclaimer of Liability

We assume no liability at all for results obtained or loss/damage incurred as a result of the application of any information presented herein. The various methods, suggestions, and tutorials on this website are not error-proof. 59° North Family cannot be held responsible for your personal safety or the outcome of your actions undertakings. Please use your common sense when following our tutorials.

Comments

When you leave comments on this website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised 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.

We love to read your comments and feedback. But please mind that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t bother leaving any comment. And please know that we have the right to remove any comments we find to be hurtful, un-friendly, or inappropriate.

Cookies

59° North Family do not share personal information with any third parties nor do we store any information about your visit to this website, other than to analyse and optimise your reading experience through the use of cookies.

If you leave a comment on our website, 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.

You can turn off the use of cookies by changing your browser settings. Additionally, as you browse the site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the site, and information about how you interact with our website.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Our website uses Plausible (We don’t trust Google Analytics. Period.) to track statistics regarding our audience and website traffic. No personally identifiable information is transferred from our website to Plausible. For more information on Plausible’s privacy policy, please visit this site. You can also read their data policy here.

We comply with Europe’s GDPR compliance. So, if you’re getting emails from us, it means you’ve opted in while visiting the website and confirmed that you’d like to be receiving e-mail/newsletter from us. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of the email.

59° North Family are not responsible for republishing content from this website on other blogs or websites without our permission.

These policies are subject to change without notice. Any questions please contact us.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has 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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this website, or have left comments, 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.