Who we are

Breaking Down the Box operates breakingdownthebox.com and may operate other websites. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized 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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Certain visitors to Breaking Down the Box’s websites choose to interact with Breaking Down the Box in ways that require Breaking Down the Box to gather personally identifying information. The amount and type of information that Breaking Down the Box gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we may ask visitors who sign up at breakingdownthebox.com to provide an email address and name. Breaking Down the Box collects information only so far as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Breaking Down the Box. Breaking Down the Box does not disclose personally identifying information other than is described below. Visitors may always refuse to supply personally identifying information, which may prevent them from engaging in certain website related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Breaking Down the Box may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Breaking Down the Box may display this information publicly or provide it to others, however, Breaking Down the Box does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information

Breaking Down the Box will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone.Breaking Down the Box may disclose potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when Breaking Down the Box believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Breaking Down the Box, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Breaking Down the Box website and have supplied your email address, Breaking Down the Box may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Breaking Down the Box. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Move Mama Move takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site 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.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

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.

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 profile. 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 site, 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.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Move Mama Move and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.null

Links to privacy policies:

Google: https://policies.google.com/privacyGravatar: https://automattic.com/privacy/Facebook: https://facebook.com/about/privacyshieldConstant Contact: https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-statement