Policy

We have this Privacy Policy to let you know how we at Not Entirely Average collect and use your personal information, and to assure you that we treat that information with great care.  We may update this Privacy Policy as our site is revised or we add new features, so please check back regularly for changes.

Our website includes links to many other websites.  We don’t control the activities or policies of other websites, so be sure you check their policies whenever you submit personal information through another website.

​Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Analytic Data

We may collect analytic information about your visit to our website so that we can keep track of how our readers access our site, which content is most popular, and so forth.  This analytic information can include your browser, your IP address, and similar technical data.  This information is not directly linked to any personal information.

We may place a cookie (a tiny data file) on your computer as you browse our site.  This allows us to keep track of your activity within our site, but it does not record any personal information.  Our site will still function if you disable cookies on your browser.

We use analytic data internally.  We may also share it with web analytics companies that we partner with to develop or improve our site.  When we share analytic data with others, it doesn’t include any of your personal information, and in any case, the companies we share with will be under contract to keep it all confidential unless it is in the form of aggregated statistics.​

We hope you feel the freedom to comment honestly and often on the blog.  Here are a few ground rules for interacting on Not Entirely Average to keep this a safe place, as well as some friendly disclosures about how this site operates.​

Personal Data

We collect your email address when you sign up to receive our newsletter or updates of new content on our website.  We use this information to send out the newsletter or to send you copies of website updates, according to your requests.

We collect your name, email address, website, and other information that you choose to submit when you send us a comment about our website through our Contact form or when you submit a Comment within a content page on our site.  We use this information to communicate with you about your comments or concerns, and we post your name and comment on our site (subject to our right to reject any comment that we deem inappropriate).

We retain the information that you submit so that we can respond to your requests and keep a records of our business activities.  We do not share it with anyone except service providers such as our mailing list manager.  They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are not permitted to use it or re-distribute it.

You can request at any time to have your personal information removed from active mailing list.  We will then stop sending you newsletters or updates. We reserve the right to maintain a copy of your information in our archives for historical and legal purposes.

Sponsored Posts

The vast majority content from our blog is non-sponsored, however, we love working with outside brands that provide value to readers. Whenever a post is sponsored or includes gifted product, we disclose it within each post.​

We believe authenticity is the greatest currency. Therefore all opinions in sponsored posts are 100% belonging to Jennifer DeRemer and are written in her own words.  We will only take on sponsored content if the product/service is authentic to our personal style and if we feel it will resonate with the interests and convictions of this community.

Collaborate with Not Entirely Average

If you think your brand or product would be a great fit for Not Entirely Average, send us an email at jenny@notentirelyaverage.com to discuss a collaboration!

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We’re with you, we hate getting spammed!

Rest assured that we will never, ever, share your information with 3rd parties. The information we collect is only used to contact you if you’ve signed up for the newsletter or a giveaway. You can unsubscribe from my newsletter any time using the link at the end of each email.​

Collected analytics is from Google is used exclusively to improve this site and your experience on it, that’s it!​

We maintain the security of your personal information using industry standard technologies.  We also use service providers who have a reputation for securely handling your personal information.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Our website is not directed at children under the age of 13. Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13.​

Our website is hosted in the United States. If you are accessing our site from outside the United States, you understand that we are governed only by U.S. laws.  Your personal information will be maintained and used according to this policy.  While we respect your desire to control your personal information, we are not subject to the data protection laws of other countries.

How We Use Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.​

Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.​

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling Your Personal Information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes

  • if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

We often use affiliate links through, which means we receive a commission on clicks or purchases of products links. The money we make there helps support this site and the content we create.

Advertising

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver. 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.