Who we are
Our website address is https://coupleshug.com/
We are a North American site focused on primarily serving visitors from North America.
What personal data we may collect and why we collect it:
Contact Forms
We collect the information that you send to us in the contact form.
Collected form information may include your name, email address, and additional personal information. This data will be sent to us via email once you send an email to us. The information you send us in only retained by us until we respond to your email and address the purpose of your email.
Email address and contact information is solely used by CouplesHug.com to reply back to you and is never used for any other purpose. We delete your email address, email, and any personal data entirely as soon as your query is responded to.
We never sell your email addresses or contact information to third parties.
Feedback Forms
We use a feedback forms plugin to create forms, polls, and quizzes on this site. View the plugin developer’s privacy policy here
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When visitors or users submit a form, the form captures the IP Address for spam protection. The IP Address is automatically anonymized upon submission and never kept.
Form submissions are not publicly viewable and will be seen by site administrators, authors, and editors. They are kept in a database for 1 month and then automatically deleted.
Couples Hug becomes the sole owner and has the perpetual rights to your submissions. Form submissions may be used publicly on (but not limited to) social media, physical media, commercial use, in promotional material, and so forth. Using forms on this site means you understand and accept these terms.
Do not enter any identifiable/personal information into the feedback forms on this site. Any submission that breaks this rule will automatically be deleted.
Media
We rarely, if ever, allow personal uploads to this site.
However, if we ever do, follow best practices to limit the amount of personal data on your media uploads.
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.
Cookies
Advertisements are used to support this site. Some advertisements may use cookies to send your data to advertisement collectors (such as Google via the Google AdSense program).
Information sent may include your IP address, your internet service provider, and your web browser used to visit this site. This data is usually used to show region specific ads and ads based off of other sites a user has visited by reading a users browser cookies.
You can turn off or disable cookie collection features in most web browser settings and/or by using your internet security software application settings.
Doing so, however, may prevent you from logging into sites or accessing certain parts of the internet. Remove or limit cookie usage at your own discretion.
If you use this site without changing your cookie preference, you accept all cookies presented by this site. These cookies will expire over time and/or can be cleared from your browser by using the methods above.
Embedded Content From Other Sites
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.
Common embedded content used on this site and links to their privacy policy can be found below:
Analytics
We use automatic a data collection service, Google Analytics, as you use this website.
For more information on how Google uses your data, view Google’s privacy policy here.
Data collected may include information such as where you are, the device you are using, the web browser you are using, interactions between your computer and this site, how you are using this site, your IP address (which we anonymize), your internet connection, your internet service provider, what web browser you are using, your operating system, and so forth.
We collect this data solely for statistic purposes to better understand how and why this site is being used in order to create a better website for visitors and users.
If you want to opt out of Google Analytics (therefore, none of your personal information will be collected and stored by Google Analytics), you can download/install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not share your data with any 3rd party company.
How Long We 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.
Cookie Explanation
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
1 Introduction
Our website, https://coupleshug.com (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”).
Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged.
Really Simple SSL
We use Really Simple SSL on our site.
Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here.
Google Analytics / Google Adsense
We use Google Analytics on our site. View Google’s privacy policy here.
2 What are cookies
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device.
The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3 What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively.
This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4 What is a webbeacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5 CCPA Compliance / Cookie Consent
Advertisements are used to support this site.
This site uses Google Ads “Restricted data processing” for advertisements served to California users in compliance of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
We have chosen to enable restricted data processing for all of this sites’ programmatic traffic for users in California via a network control.
Google restricts how it uses certain unique identifiers and other data on this site. Google will only show non-personalized ads to users in California on this site. Non-personalized ads are based on contextual information, such as the content of this site.
Google will limit how it uses data on this site and will serve non-personalized ads only. Non-personalized ads are not based on a user’s past behavior. They are targeted using contextual information. Google disallows all interest-based audience targeting, including demographic targeting and user list targeting when in restricted data processing mode.
a) Furthermore, if you don’t consent with accepting cookies from our site, you can disable the use of cookies via your web browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
Some advertisements may use cookies and or web beacons to send your data to advertisement collectors (such as Google via the Google AdSense program).
Information sent may include your your internet service provider and your web browser used to visit this site.
This data is usually used to show region specific ads and ads based off of other sites a user has visited by reading a users browser cookies.
b) You can turn off or disable cookie collection features in most web browser settings and/or by using your internet security software application settings. Read this guide for information on managing cookies in common browsers.
Flash Cookies (a.k.a Local Shared Objects) cannot be changed by browser settings. Visit the Adobe website on how to delete or disable Flash cookies.
c) You can also disable cookies another way. Visit these sites to opt out of behavioral cookies:
- Digital Advertising Alliance (U.S. residents and those not in the EU or Canada)
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EU residents
- Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (Canadian residents)
Doing so, however, may prevent you from logging into sites or accessing certain parts of the internet. Remove or limit cookie usage at your own discretion.
d) Learn more about how you can control ad based cookies at YourAdChoice
These cookies will expire over time and/or can be cleared from your browser by using the methods above.
6 GDPR Compliance
This site has activated features to be in compliance to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in respect to European Union law.
This site uses advertisements but is limited in scope by this site’s duty to uphold GDPR compliance.
- Google advertising reporting features have been turned off, re-marketing has been turned off, all data sharing settings (for Google products & services, benchmarking, technical support, account specialists, and Google directly) have been turned off, thus eliminating and/or severely limiting access to user data.
- We have also reviewed and accepted the Google Data Processing Amendment that concerns both the CCPA and GDPR.
- Google Analytics unique User-ID is turned off ensuring user engagement is not tracked.
7 Third parties
We have made agreements about the use of cookies with other companies that place cookies.
However, we cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. Parties such as Google are to be considered as independent data controllers.
We recommend that you read the privacy statements of these companies.
8 Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed.
Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed.
For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences.
What are cookies ?
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information.
They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser.
These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide a better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How do we use cookies ?
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What types of cookies do we use ?
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns.
The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
How can I control the cookie preferences ?
Different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies.
Apple Web Browsers:
Google Browser:
Microsoft Browsers:
Mozilla Browser:
Visit this link to learn how to opt-out of Google Analytics:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Visit these links for tools to opt-out of targeted ads:
http://www.aboutads.info/choices
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices
To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
9 Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our cookie policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Website: coupleshug.com
United States, North America
Contact us by visiting the contact page.