Privacy Policy

At MyrtleandTurtle.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.  We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use MyrtleandTurtle.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.  MyrtleandTurtle.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all of our operations.  And we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that MyrtleandTurtle.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to MyrtleandTurtle.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

MyrtleandTurtle.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. 

MyrtleandTurtle.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it. If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on. 

Advertising Cookies

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website. 

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Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page. 

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Affiliate Products and Services 

We may receive an affiliate commission for products and services sold on MyrtleandTurtle.com. By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.  If you choose to refuse MyrtleandTurtle.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

MyrtleandTurtle.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our site.

• To display content on the site correctly.

• To improve customer service.

• To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.

• To personalize your user experience.

• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.

• To improve our site.

• To improve our products and services.

• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.

• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.

• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.

• To respond to your questions and/or other requests.

MyrtleandTurtle.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.  Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.  If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.  If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address. This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms.  

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