Privacy Policy
Effective and updated: 9/29/2026
Gone with the Gastons (“The Site”, “we”, “us”, “paulagaston.com”) is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit our website, paulagaston.com. You can access paulagaston.com and browse our site without disclosing any of your personal data. Paulagaston.com does not collect personal information about individuals, such as names and mailing or e-mail addresses unless it is knowingly provided by the individual and he or she has agreed to the terms under which paulagaston.com will use it.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Site. By using the Site or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
This Site is owned and operated by Paula Gaston (“Paula”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).
The content of this blog is intended for informational purposes only. We are not liable for any errors on this website.
Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is important to us. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect or maintain information at our sites from those who are under 18, and no part of our site is structured to attract anyone under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Site, or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Site, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Site or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at paula.gaston@mail.com.
Disclosure of Information
Paulagaston.com will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals. We may use IP addresses to compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, traffic patterns, and administer the site. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We collect only the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.
The Information We Gather
When you access the Site, we will learn certain information about you during your visit. We may collect personal information about you, including but not limited to:
(1.) Newsletter optins: Your name and email address.
(2.) Comments: Your name and email address.
(3.) Transactions: Your name, email address, billing information, and payment source.
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain this Website;
- To improve your experience on this Website;
- To respond to your comments;
- To provide you with user support;
- Provide and deliver the information, products and services you request, process transactions and send you related information, including confirmations and receipts;
- Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
- Communicate with you about products, services, surveys, offers, promotions, rewards and events, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you;
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Services;
- Personalize and improve the Services and provide advertisements, content or features that match user profiles or interests.
Comments
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.
Any comments left on the site by visitors do not represent the views or beliefs of the Blogger and the Blogger can’t be held responsible for them.
Cookies
Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
We reserve the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. We also reserve the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
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.
Third-party Use of Personal Information
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Site are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Among Site currently uses the following third-
Mailchimp – We use this service for delivering email updates and newsletters. Mailchimp’s privacy policy is available at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/
Advertising
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site 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/
Affiliate Disclaimer
Some articles on this blog may be sponsored or contain affiliate links, which will be clearly indicated. Affiliate marketing is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. Gone with the Gastons has financial relationships with a number of companies mentioned on this website.
Data Protection
We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors. Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL.
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://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
We use Mailchimp for delivering email updates and newsletters. Mailchimp’s privacy policy is available at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/
Our site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
International Data Transfers
When we transfer data internationally, we follow applicable data protection laws and use appropriate safeguards to protect your information.
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 this Site (if any), 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.
European Privacy Rights (GDPR)
For users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom (UK), we process your personal data based on legitimate interests, consent, contractual necessity, or legal obligations.
- Access your personal information
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete information
- Request deletion of your information
- Object or restrict processing of your information
- Withdraw consent
We respond to all data rights requests within 30 days.
California Privacy Rights
California residents have additional rights regarding their personal information under the CCPA and CPRA. This includes the right to know what information we collect, request deletion, and opt-out of data sharing.
Changes
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access or use our Services or otherwise interact with us to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. If you continue to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you consent to the revised policy.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please reach out to: paula.gaston@mail.com.