Privacy Statement

We'll keep this short and avoid jargon as much as possible. Basically, we do our best to not collect any unnecessary personal information.

Who we are?

https://www.lycobirds.com is owned and operated by LycoBirds, LLC, a limited liability company in the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. We can be reached at lycobirds@gmail.com.

What information do we collect?

We use Google Analytics, which is the industry standard for free website analytics, to collect basic infomation about how our site is being used (to determine, for example, what types of content are being viewed a lot so that we can make more like that), but don't have any demographic/interest tracking ("Advertising Features") enabled for our account.

When you sign up for our email newsletter, the name and email address you provide are stored in our ConvertKit account so that we can send you email messages. If we decide to change email platforms at some point, we would migrate your information to the new platform so that we can continue to send you emails. We don't sell or use that information for any other purpose. Any email sent to you has an unsubscribe option, which would remove your information from the system.

We don't use Facebook (or similar social media) tracking pixels on our site.

We do provide links to other websites, which have their own privacy policies. You should review those policies on any pages not on lycobirds.com. Similarly, we use embedded content (e.g., YouTube videos) on many pages. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website, and these websites may collect data about you or store cookies.

The "tip jar" feature on our website is powered by ConvertKit, which uses Stripe to process payments. LycoBirds does not collect, store, or have access to any of your financial information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We use third party advertisements 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 and Amazon) information including your IP address, your ISP, and the browser you used to visit our site. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing ads relevant to your general location) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing sports-related ads to someone who frequents sports sites). Advertisers may use cookies to serve ads specific to you and your interests ("interest based targeting"). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting a specific city, you may see hotel advertisements for that city when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about birds). This process uses "non personally identifiable information," meaning it does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers.

You may opt out of Google's personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. You may opt out of some third-party vendors' uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info or through their respective websites. You can also choose 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, be aware that this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

Other disclosures

As an Amazon Associate, LycoBirds earns from qualifying purchases. In other words, we get a small commission if you buy something on Amazon after using our links.

Updates

Changes to this statement will be made here, and indicated by a change in the "last updated" date at the bottom of this page — and are effective immediately. We are just as concerned about privacy as you are, and we do put thought into the technologies we use on our website.

Last updated 8/23/2022