Privacy Policy 

Your security is very important to us. We will never sell or share your information without your consent. This site will collect:

...information you provide when you create an account, participate in comment forums, subscribe to a newsletter or email list, participate in an event, survey, contest or promotion, make a purchase, or otherwise communicate with us.

...information automatically such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, device type, visit times, pages viewed, web browser, and links clicked. This information is used to analyze trends, usage, and activities so we can provide, maintain, improve, personalize, and promote my site.

...information provided by cookies which are small data files stored on your hard drive that help us improve thegritandpolish.com and your experience. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on thegritandpolish.com or emails to help deliver cookies, count visits, and help us understand usage and campaign effectiveness.

photo policy

You are welcome to use images from the gritandpolish.com, but be sure to give credit to us and link your readers back to the original post.

SITE POLICY

Below are policies we maintain when running thegritandpolish.com:

  • We will only promote brands that we use ourselves or genuinely believe in. Sometimes they are sponsored, and sometimes I promote products simply because I love them.

  • We occasionally link to products using affiliate links that earn us a small commission when you make a purchase. It costs you nothing but makes shopping easier for you and it helps support your favorite bloggers.

  • We will sometimes work with brands that will sponsor us to promote their products. We will only ever accept sponsorship from brands we genuinely like. If a post is sponsored, we will clearly write that near the top of the post.

  • All published content on thegritandpolish.com, including designs, photographs, tutorials, and posts are created by us, Garrett and Cathy Poshusta. All content on thegritandpolish.com is original unless noted otherwise (inspiration images for instance).

  • We reserve the right to monitor comments. Spam, self-promotional, and offensive comments are subject to deletion.

COOKIE POLICY

A cookie is a small piece of data stored on the your computer by your web browser while using thegritandpolish.com and other websites. Cookies remember information like items in your shopping cart and records your browsing activity like which buttons you click or pages you visited. They also help you browse sites by auto-filling your name in form fields as well as save images on previously-visited sites for quick web loading.

We use cookies on thegritandpolish.com to count the number of visitors to my site and to track how users like to navigate so we can make sure the site is designed for users to find what they are looking for easily. Third parties will also use cookies on thegritandpolish.com when we use affiliate links so online stores can send a small commission to us for referring to to make a purchase on their site. Third parties may also use your cookie information to display ads based on content most applicable to you based on previous search history.

You can easily clear your cookies or turn off the use of cookies by third parties in your web browser settings. However, this will affect how you interact with my site and others. It will prevent you from easily logging in to services or programs.

affiliate + THIRD PARTY USE POLICY

When you purchase from an advertiser that we recommend on thegritandpolish.com, we may receive a small commission. Commissions go to supporting this site and don’t cost you a thing. We use affiliate marketing companies to track cookies and manage commissions. You can review their policies of each company: RewardStyle, Amazon Associates.

The Grit and Polish offers social sharing features (such as the Facebook “Like” button) which lets you share my blog posts with other media platforms. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with that social entity. For more information about the data collection, visit the privacy policies of these outside media platforms: Facebook, Pinterest, Google, Twitter.

You are welcome to subscribe to our email list to get blog posts by email and get access to thegritandpolish.com email newsletter. You may opt out at any time by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of the email.

Advertising (adthrive)

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia ("CafeMedia") for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia's data usage, click here www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy 

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/