Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.thefashionfold.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Fashion Fold collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Fashion Fold’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Fashion Fold’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Fashion Fold may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Fashion Fold also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. The Fashion Fold only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Fashion Fold choose to interact with The Fashion Fold in ways that require The Fashion Fold to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Fashion Fold gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For those who wish to receive TheFashionFold updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, The Fashion Fold collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Fashion Fold. The Fashion Fold does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities. In the case of signing up to emails, there will be an “Unsubscribe” link on each email sent out.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. The Fashion Fold uses cookies to help The Fashion Fold identify and track visitors, their usage of The Fashion Fold website, and their website access preferences. Cookies make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide a better user experience, and allow The Fashion Fold to understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and what needs improvement.
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
The types of cookies that are used on The Fashion Fold are:
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Marketing: Our website displays advertisements. These cookies are used to personalize the advertisements that we show to you so that they are meaningful to you. These cookies also help us keep track of the efficiency of these ad campaigns. The information stored in these cookies may also be used by the third-party ad providers to show you ads on other websites on the browser as well.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and more efficient experience on future visits to the website.
Note: 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.
How can I control my cookie preferences?
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “Privacy & Cookie Policy” tab on your screen. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.
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.
Aggregated Statistics
The Fashion Fold may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to the site, for example monitoring the most popular pages or using spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The Fashion Fold may display this information publicly or provide it to others however we would not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Fashion Fold discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Fashion Fold’s behalf or to provide services available at The Fashion Fold’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Fashion Fold, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Fashion Fold will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Fashion Fold discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Fashion Fold believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Fashion Fold, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of The Fashion Fold and have supplied your email address, The Fashion Fold may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Fashion Fold. We primarily use the website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Fashion Fold takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Business Transfers
If The Fashion Fold, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Fashion Fold goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Fashion Fold may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on The Fashion Fold may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Fashion Fold and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
The Fashion Fold uses Google Ads – you may read more detailed information about Google’s use of cookies and information here.
Affiliate Marketing
The Fashion Fold participates in affiliate marketing programs and recommends products from select partners. The Fashion Fold may gain commission should you purchase a product recommended on this website, however this is at no extra cost to you. Affiliate marketing requires the use of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Fashion Fold may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Fashion Fold’s sole discretion. The Fashion Fold encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.