Privacy Policy for Living the Frugal Life

At www.livingthefrugallife.net, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit www.livingthefrugallife.net, and how we safeguard your information.  We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.  The information in the log files include  your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site. 

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site.  This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on www.livingthefrugallife.net to support our site.  Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.  However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

External Links

This web site contains links to other websites not owned by www.livingthefrugallife.net. We will not, and cannot, control how your personal information is used on these other sites. Although we are selective on the sites that we provide links to, we recommend that you review the privacy policies on any third party sites that you visit. 

Comments

Comments that are submitted to this website are the responsibility of the commenter. However, we reserve the right to remove or edit any comments that we deem inappropriate. This includes, but is not limited to, comments containing profanity, self promotion, harassment, threats, or spam of any sort. If you provide a site URL, it will be published along with comments. Email addresses that are required with comment submission are not disclosed and will not be publicly displayed unless the commenter enters his/her email address in the main comment box in addition to the box clearly labeled for the email address.

Contact Information

If you have any additional questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policy, please email Leigh at livingthefrugallife (at) gmail (dot) com.