Privacy Policy

WeHoroscope.com respects your privacy. Learn more about the kinds of data we collect and how and why we use it.

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

General Enquiries

We take your privacy seriously. We collect your name, email address, and any other information that you submit to us for the purpose of contacting you about your inquiry.  This information is stored on our servers as well as emailed to our administration staff who are required to keep all information private unless we have explicit permission to share it.

Cookies 

A “cookie” is a small data text file that is placed in your browser and allows WeHoroscope.com to recognize you each time you visit this site (customization etc). They are kept on your computer, not on our server.

Cookies are not software, and cannot run as programs on your computer. Cookies cannot read or examine the data on your computer or alter its settings in any way. 

We use cookies for our birth chart form simply for your convenience so you do not have to keep re-entering data. The personal information you must enter to generate a birth chart is birth date data which includes the day, month, year, and time you or someone else may have been born. We ask that you do not use your real name here, but only a nickname. We do not collect or use this data in any way, and these cookies are set to expire over a period of time.

WeHoroscope.com does not use cookies to collect personal information. Cookies may also be used by 3rd party content providers such as news feeds. WeHoroscope.com uses Google Analytics to track traffic to the site and to improve our content to our visitors, for example (learn how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.

Learn more about the cookies and kind of data we collect, below:

Site 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 up 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 are an editor on our site when 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.

We also use cookies in our advertising, site tracking, and subscriptions. Read more below.

Display Ads and advertising on this site

• Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

Cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on this site in the future:

• Users that they may visit those websites to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Google advertising cookies

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.   When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.

• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings and www.aboutads.info.)

 Learn how Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.

(http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/)

WeHoroscope.com implements the Google Display Advertiser feature which collects anonymous demographic and interest data about traffic to WeHoroscope.com through Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers. We use these identifiers to better understand our general audience in order to choose advertising that is most relevant and useful to our audience.  We may use this information to create content that we believe our audience will find most relevant or useful.  It is against WeHoroscope.com policy to merge any personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product or feature should this be possible.

You can opt out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features WeHoroscope.com uses, including through Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps or any other available means (for example, the NAI’s consumer opt out) by visiting Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web. You may also be interested in NAI’s opt-out page https://optout.networkadvertising.org/

Embedded content from other websites

Articles and posts 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.

Tracking how our website is used

Analytics

In order to discover which content is most useful or enjoyed by our users, and to improve the user experience we track how our site is used. We use Google Analytics to track traffic and site usage. 

We also have the ability to use server site applications to track and log visitor that will tell us what IP address was used to visit the site.  As with the majority of websites, we are able to tell what general location you are in such as your city by the IP and the network you used, but we cannot track or identify who you are or where you live unless you were to specifically provide us that information. 

Your internet provider may be required to disclose the information they have based on your IP only if required by law.

Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor (aka. user) interactions on Google Analytics customers’ websites. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. Learn more

In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.

Where a site or app uses Google Analytics for Apps or the Google Analytics for Firebase SDKs, Google Analytics collects an app-instance identifier — a randomly generated number that identifies a unique installation of an App. Whenever a user resets their Advertising Identifier (Advertising ID on Android, and ID for Advertisers on iOS), the app-instance identifier is also reset.

Where sites or apps have implemented Google Analytics with other Google Advertising products, like Google Ads, additional advertising identifiers may be collected. Users can opt out of this feature and manage their settings for this cookie using the Ads Settings. Learn more

Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). Google Analytics provides a method to mask IPs that are collected (detailed below) but note that website owners have access to their users’ IP addresses even if the website owners do not use Google Analytics.

What is the data used for?

Google uses Google Analytics data to provide the Google Analytics measurement service to customers. Identifiers such as cookies and app instance IDs are used to measure user interactions with a customer’s sites and/or apps, while IP addresses are used to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give the customer a sense of where in the world their users come from. Customers may also choose to use the data collected by Google Analytics for site/app personalization or advertising purposes, including ads personalization (subject to the settings described below).

Activity

This feature only records activities of our site’s registered users, and the retention duration of activity data will depend on the site’s plan and activity type.

Data Used: To deliver this functionality and record activities around site management, the following information is captured: user email address, user role, user login, user display name, WordPress.com and local user IDs, the activity to be recorded, the WordPress.com-connected site ID of the site on which the activity takes place, the site’s Jetpack version, and the timestamp of the activity. Some activities may also include the actor’s IP address (login attempts, for example) and user agent.

Activity Tracked: Login attempts/actions, post and page update and publish actions, comment/pingback submission and management actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, and the modification of other various site settings and options. Retention duration of activity data depends on the site’s plan and activity type. See the complete list of currently-recorded activities (along with retention information).

Data Synced (?): Successful and failed login attempts, which will include the actor’s IP address and user agent.

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Comment Likes

This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: In order to process a comment like, the following information is used: WordPress.com user ID/username (you must be logged in to use this feature), the local site-specific user ID (if the user is signed in to the site on which the like occurred), and a true/false data point that tells us if the user liked a specific comment. If you perform a like action from one of our mobile apps, some additional information is used to track the activity: IP address, user agent, timestamp of event, blog ID, browser language, country code, and device info.

Activity Tracked: Comment likes.

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Infinite Scroll

Data Used: In order to record page views via WordPress.com Stats (which must be enabled for page view tracking here to work) with additional loads, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

Activity Tracked: Page views will be tracked with each additional load (i.e. when you scroll down to the bottom of the page and a new set of posts loads automatically). If the site owner has enabled Google Analytics to work with this feature, a page view event will also be sent to the appropriate Google Analytics account with each additional load.

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Comments

Data Used: Commenter’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided via the comment form), timestamp, and IP address. Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content. If Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on the site, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.

Activity Tracked: The comment author’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies.

Data Synced (?): All data and metadata (see above) associated with comments. This includes the status of the comment and, if Akismet is enabled on the site, whether or not it was classified as spam by Akismet.

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Likes

This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: In order to process a post like action, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID (on which the post was liked), post ID (of the post that was liked), user agent, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

Activity Tracked: Post likes.

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Mobile Theme

Data Used: A visitor’s preference on viewing the mobile version of a site.

Activity Tracked: A cookie is stored for 3.5 days to remember whether or not a visitor of the site wishes to view its mobile version. Learn more about this cookie.

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Notifications

This feature is only accessible to registered users of the site who are logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Some visitor-related information or activity may be sent to the site owner via this feature. This may include: email address, WordPress.com username, site URL, email address, comment content, follow actions, etc.

Activity Tracked: Sending notifications (i.e. when we send a notification to a particular user), opening notifications (i.e. when a user opens a notification that they receive), performing an action from within the notification panel (e.g. liking a comment or marking a comment as spam), and clicking on any link from within the notification panel/interface.

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Protect

Data Used: In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.

Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human. Learn more about this cookie.

Data Synced (?): Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.

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Subscriptions

Data Used: To initiate and process subscriptions, the following information is used: subscriber’s email address and the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed). In the event of a new subscription being initiated, we also collect some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user’s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI which was given in order to access the page. This server data used for the exclusive purpose of monitoring and preventing abuse and spam.

Activity Tracked: Functionality cookies are set for a duration of 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription.

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Who we share your data with

We do not sell, lease, rent or otherwise disclose your personal data to third parties unless otherwise stated below. We may share your personal data with authorized third parties who process personal data for purposes described here. This may include for example billing, providing services including customer service, managing and analyzing consumer data, credit checks if necessary, conducting research and managing marketing and other such campaigns.

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

Data such as the technical details of how our site is accessed, city location, time, page visits, etc. may be sent to authorized third party service providers such as our web host, Google, Mailchimp.  If you sign up to our newsletter, personally identifiable information such a your name and email is encrypted and sent to Mailchimp. If you click a link to purchase a product sites may be sent billing information this information may be shared with authorized financial services such as PayPal, banks or credit card companies for the purpose of processing your transactions. Currently we do not offer any products or services for purchase and we ask that you do not enter in any credit card or financial information anywhere on this site.

How we protect your data

We do not sell, rent or lease personal data.

We will vigorously challenge any attempts by government agencies or private sector organizations to gain access to any information that you give us.

User accounts are required to have complex passwords and user accounts are limited in what they can do once becoming a member. For example a subscriber account can only read public information we well as their own data within their own account. Editors only have access to the backend controls in order to publish content and do not have access to any user information.  We collect only the information that is absolutely needed in order for us to provide you a service that you have consented to.

We use secure socket layers when you visit this site to ensure any data exchange is encrypted. However it is impossible to guarantee any information transmitted via the internet is entire and completely secure: any transmission here or anywhere else on the internet is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access. When possible, encryption is used, both in transit and storage. Access controls within our organization severely limit who may access information.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Unfortunately, regardless of what security measures are in place all organizations are vulnerable to data breaches.  If we discovered any breach in data our first step is to contain the breach as quickly as possible.  Once the threat has been contained we then will eliminate the threat as quickly as possible. This may include deleting user accounts, blacklisting IPs, and so on.

Next we will assess the damage to determine what kind of data was breached, how sensitive the data was, how the breach occurred so we can deal with those vulnerabilities, who was affected.  We then will contact those organizations or individuals as soon as possible provided we still have retained any data, cite the date of the breach, what was compromised and what the recipient can do for protection from any further damage.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Based on the cookies set, we may serve you tailored content. For example, if you have seen a particular screen, our system may be set up not to show you that screen again. See more below for display advertising automated decisions.

Third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your browsers, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on this website. These cookies do not contain any personally identifying information.

Credit card details

WeHoroscope.com will never ask for Credit Card details and request that you do not enter it on any of the forms on WeHoroscope.com.

External Sites

WeHoroscope.com is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. You are advised to read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.

Learn more about how Google uses and processes data visit the following links: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

WeHoroscope.com may participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to amazon.com at no additional cost to you.  This helps us keep this site hosted without using banner advertising should you decide to buy.  Excluding ads, in articles, we will only recommend specific books and products that we believe are helpful and useful. Please do not spend any money on anything that you don’t feel will help you. There is no personally identifiable information is exchanged.

Remember The Risks Whenever You Use The Internet 

While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to WeHoroscope.com and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through WeHoroscope.com have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.