Disclosure Policy
My goal here at The Homeschool Scientist is to equip and encourage homeschool parents by taking the fear out of and putting the fun into science education. Doing that takes a lot of hard work and effort on my part. Therefore, I pursue various streams of revenue to pay for this site, the services necessary to maintain it, and my time.
This site https://thehomeschoolscientist.com/ is run solely by the site owner.
Paid Ads, Reviews, and Sponsored Posts
I accept paid advertisement, product reviews, and sponsored posts on The Homeschool Scientist, but only when they line up with the mission of the site and I feel they will be a good resource for my audience.
Advertising space is paid for and is clearly defined as such.
Sometimes, I partner with a business who has a product or service that I think will benefit my audience. They compensate me to write a post to be published at TheHomeschoolScientist.com for the purpose of introducing you to their product or service. All sponsored content will be clearly marked as such at the top of the post.
From time to time, I review products in posts. Some of them are products I purchased with my own money and wanted to share with you. Others were part of given to me free of charge for the purpose of reviewing. No matter where the products I review come from, the opinions shared in the review post are honest and all mine.
Affiliate Links
If you click on a link or ad on The Homeschool Scientist, assume it is an affiliate link and that I may receive a small percentage of any sale at no cost to you. The Homeschool Scientist is a participant in several affiliate programs, such as the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, Share-A-Sale, and others. These are affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Other affiliate programs may be used, as well.
Privacy Policy
Personal Data Collected And How It Is Used
Personal information collected by The Homeschool Scientist is protected and never sold to third-party entities.
Information You Voluntarily Submit To The Website
The Homeschool Scientist may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, making a purchase, submitting a freebie form, or submitting a contact form. Your information is used solely for the purpose of getting you the information you signed up for or contacting you to answer your question. It is never sold or shared with a third party. If you sign up for a freebie you are agreeing to subscribe to our occasional enewsletter or other promotional emails. You may unsubscribe at anytime using the unsubscribe link in our emails.
Automatically-Collected Information
The Homeschool Scientist may automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the website. For example, when you use the website, The Homeschool Scientist will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. The Homeschool Scientist may also collect information about actions you take when using the website, such as links clicked. This information is used for analytic purposes, provide personalized ads, and to make the site a better experience for you.
Cookies
We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small data files that are served by our platform and stored on your device. Our site uses cookies dropped by us or third parties for a variety of purposes including to operate and personalize the website. Also, cookies may also be used to track how you use the site to target ads to you on other websites.
Last updated: June 30, 2021
This Cookie Policy outlines how TheHomeschoolScientist.com(“us”, “we”, or “our”) our third-party service providers use cookies and similar technologies to recognize, collect, and/or track information about, and relevant to, your usage of https://www.thehomeschoolscientist.com (the “Site”).
WHAT COOKIES ARE
Cookies are text files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s or tablet device’s or mobile device’s part of the hard drive specifically designated for cookies.
It is standard practice to use cookies to make your experience better when using a website.
Like many sites, we use “cookies” to recognize, collect, and/or track information about, and relevant to, your usage of the Site.
These cookies are known as “first-party cookies”. We may also recognize, collect, and/or track information through cookies set by third parties. These cookies are known as “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies are used to perform tasks related to advertising, and analytics, and to enable interactive features such as sharing or commenting. Some third parties collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the user.
The information that our first-party cookies or third-party cookies recognize, collect, and/or track may include information about your devices, browsing actions, and patterns, such as among others, the type of computer you use, your internet service provider, your browser type, your location, your IP address, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, your traffic pattern through the Site.
Upon your first visit to the Site (and periodically after that), we will request your consent to our use of cookies except for those strictly necessary.
WHAT COOKIES WE USE
We use the following categories of cookies on the Site:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to browse the Site and use its features. We use cookies to save your sessions, your login details, and other information necessary to perform your requests, and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of this Site, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic. We use cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize your browsing experience.
Analytics cookies
These cookies collect information about your use of the Site, such as for instance, browsing actions, and patterns, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, your traffic pattern through the Site.
Through the collection of this information, we are able to monitor and analyze web traffic to the Site. User behaviours may be recognized, collected, and/or tracked.
We use Google Analytics to monitor and analyze web traffic to the Site. Google utilizes the data recognized, collected, and/or tracked on the Site to prepare reports on traffic activities.
This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address.
Google may use the information recognized, collected, and/or tracked to personalize the ads of its advertising network and may share the information recognized, collected, and/or tracked with other services.
Security cookies
These cookies are essential to our security features. These cookies allow us to detect malicious activities or activities in breach of our terms of use.
Social media cookies and pixels
Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets
The Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets are application allowing interaction with the Facebook social network.
YouTube video widget
YouTube is a video sharing website that allows this Site to incorporate video content on its pages and posts.
HOW TO CONTROL COOKIES
In accordance with our Privacy Policy and this Cookie Policy, you have the right to accept or reject cookies.
Strictly necessary cookies may not be rejected since they are essential to enable you to browse the Site and use its features.
Should you reject cookies, you will still be able to use the Site although certain features and functionalities may not be available to you and/or certain areas may be restricted.
In addition to what it is indicated within this Cookie Policy, you can manage preferences for cookies directly from within your own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing cookies.
Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete cookies installed in the past, including the cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of cookies by this Site.
You can find information about how to manage cookies in the most commonly used browsers (e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer) on the website of the browser of choice.
With regard to cookies installed by third parties, users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.│
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us at customerservice at the homeschoolscientst dot com.