Who we are

Our website address is: https://indiefog.com. We are a homemade, small batch bath and body botanical company based in San Diego, CA.

Comments and Reviews

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

When adding products from our store to the cart, we will use an additional session cookie in order to link your browser with the shopping cart information saved on our site.

Third Party Tracking Services

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to collect and analyze information about how you use our website. This helps us understand user behavior and improve our site’s content and functionality.

Information we collect: Google Analytics uses “cookies”—small text files stored on your device—to collect data such as:

• Your IP address
• Device and browser information
• The pages you visit and the time spent on them
• The website you visited before ours (referrer URL)
• General location data based on your IP address

How the data is used: The information collected by Google Analytics is used to generate reports that help us analyze website traffic, understand how visitors interact with our site, and improve the user experience. This data is used in an aggregated and anonymized format and does not personally identify you.

Data sharing: The data collected by Google Analytics is processed by Google on our behalf. This data may be shared with other Google services to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can learn more about how Google uses data from its partners’ sites here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners.

Advertising features (if applicable): If we have enabled Google Analytics Advertising Features, your data may be used for remarketing purposes. This means Google and other third-party vendors may show you our ads on other websites you visit, based on your activity on our site.

Your choices and how to opt out

You have control over how your data is collected and used by Google Analytics:

• Browser add-on: You can prevent Google Analytics from using your data by installing the official Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. It is available here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Cookie settings: You can also use your web browser’s settings to refuse cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, this may affect the functionality of some parts of our website.

By using our website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Beyond that, we do not share data with anyone. We take your privacy very seriously. We don’t like when companies take advantage of our data so, we would not do that to our own customers.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. Any orders placed on our store are also saved indefinitely until such time we elect to purge that data during a maintenance activity.

Any information provided through a contact form is kept for 6 months and then purged,

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or contacted us through our contact form, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. During the purchase transaction phase of an order that is placed on our site, we will send required information to our third-party credit card processing service for the sole purpose of authorizing the use of the card and processing the transaction.