My Policies

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• Essential Cookies: These are essential for enabling navigation and basic functionality.
• Analytics and Performance Cookies: These help me to understand how visitors interact with my website, for example by showing me which pages are visited most often. This data is aggregated and anonymous (e.g., Google Analytics).
• First-party Cookies: These are set by my website to remember your settings, provide personalised content and services, and enable access to secure areas.
• Third-party Cookies: These are set by other services used on my website such as: Google, YouTube, Vimeo, Spotify, WordPress, Automattic, and Jetpack. These services may also set Cookies and save data. I have no control over, or responsibility for the policies or practices of any third-party site.

You have the right to choose whether to accept or reject cookies. The following tools can be used to manage them:

• Cookie Consent Tool: By clicking on my cookie banner(s), you are choosing to accept cookies.
• Browser Settings: You can set or change your web browser settings to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you can still use my website, although you may not have access to all its features.

If you have opted-in to my Site by following, liking, or by commenting, then you have agreed to provide this Site with certain personal data that could be used to identify or contact you. This may include, but is not limited to the following:

• Your name, Avatar, email address, and your website address. 
• Log data: this site collects information that your browser sends whenever you visit the site (‘log data’). This may include your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, the type and version of your browser, and the pages you visit.

Although I may store the personal information I hold about you indefinitely, you have the right to request its removal or correction. If you wish to have a comment removed from this Site then please contact me and I will do so as quickly as possible. If you wish to remove your data from this Site then please unsubscribe completely using the links at the foot of this blog. Your details will be deleted permanently.

If you have any questions, please contact me via my Contact Page.

I use your information only for the following purposes:

• Operating and maintaining my website.
• Contacting you by email, if specifically requested by you.
• Sending requested updates (as per your subscription).
• Analyzing site traffic to improve your browsing experience (e.g., Google Analytics)

Your data will not be passed on to anyone by me and I do not collect personal data about you from third parties.

My website may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by Signora Sheila and over which I have no control. Clicking on a third-party link will direct you to their website. I am not responsible for their content or privacy practices.

I do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. 

Information may be shared with trusted third-party service providers (such as website hosting providers or email newsletter services) who assist me in operating my website, provided they agree to keep this information confidential. I may also disclose your information if required by law.

My Site is a personal blog and not a business. My Site is hosted by WordPress.com who are fully compliant with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation 2018 ) and whose privacy and data policy you can read here.

The security of your Personal Information is important to me, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is ever 100% secure.