Privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy describes the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use the website and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Amazon Affiliate Disclaimer

Pines & Vines participates in affiliate programs, including the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program that allows me to earn fees by linking to products on Amazon.com. If you purchase through these links, I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.

Information collection

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Websites you visited before coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Use of Your Data

We may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain service, including monitoring the usage of our service.

  • To contact you by email regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

  • To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events unless you have opted not to receive such information.

  • To respond to your requests.

  • For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our services, marketing, and your experience.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allows Squarespace, the hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Form submission

When you submit information to this website via a web form, data requested in the web form, like first and last names and email addresses, is collected to track and respond to your submissions. This information is shared with Squarespace, my online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to me. Participation in the email list is completely voluntary and you can opt out at any time by unsubscribing.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Links to Other Websites

My website contains links to other websites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. I suggest reviewing the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content or practices of any third-party sites or services. I do make an effort only to link to websites that I think will be helpful to my users, and I welcome any feedback regarding those websites.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact me by email.

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.