TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The Frugal Housewife is a lifestyle blog that focuses on living a frugal lifestyle.  We offer tips and hacks regarding saving money, spending money, living a minimalist lifestyle, food and cooking, and much more. 

We have several policies that comprise the “legal” side of running our blog.  If you are visiting our blog, you should read each of the policies to make sure that you agree with each policy.  If you do not agree with our policies, then you should not continue on to our blog and posts.


PRIVACY POLICY

We have a full privacy policy.  Please read our full privacy policy here.  


COOKIE POLICY

The Frugal Housewife uses cookies to collect information about your visit to this blog.  We do not store any information about your visit other than what is needed to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience.  We go into full detail on our privacy policy and list links to the privacy and opt-out pages of the third-party service providers that we use.  

The use of cookies can be turned off at any time by changing your specific browser settings.  

The third party vendors that we promote, which includes Google, use cookies in order to serve ads that are based on a user’s prior visit.  

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.  


NEWSLETTER POLICY

At this time, we do not offer users a newsletter.  This is in part because we are concentrating on building our readership and also because of the GDPR regulations.   We do, however, intend to start one in the near future.  We are making this newsletter privacy policy to declare our intended policy that will be in force when we do offer a newsletter.  

Our newsletter will offer free content to the subscribers of our mail list.  In order to subscribe to our mail list, readers will be required to provide a name and email address.  We will not share that information with anyone. We will never send spam email.

We will offer informative emails on a variety of topics.  Subscribers will be able to unsubscribe from the list they sign up for by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email that is received from us.  

When we start offering a newsletter, we will use MailerLite.  


CORRESPONDENCE POLICY

The Frugal Housewife has a contact form on our website on the page “Contact Us”.  We collect the following information from users who send us communications via this page — Your name and email address.  

There are two boxes that must be ticked in order to send a communication via this page.  They are:

  1. “By ticking this box you express your consent to us processing your personal data for the purpose of communicating with you via email.”
  2. “By ticking this box you declare that you have read and accepted our privacy policy and terms of service.”

Both boxes must be ticked in order for the communication to be sent.  


COMMENTS POLICY

The Frugal Housewife has turned on the feature to leave a comment on our website.  Comments are welcome as long as they follow the following rules.

  1. Readers are encouraged and welcome to leave a comment on our posts.
  2. Readers are expected to be kind and respectful in the way comments are left.  
  3. Comments are reviewed and must be approved in order to be posted.  Comments that are rude, sexist, racist or deemed hateful toward religion or lifestyle will not be approved.
  4. Comments that are not approved will be deleted and the commenter may be banned,.  This is solely at the discretion of the website’s moderators.

Comments that have been previously approved are stored in our databases and will be visible.  These are public comments that have been made by the user.


THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN

It is a GDPR mandate that allows users to ask that the data associated with them be deleted.  You may request at any time that we delete all data associated with our emails. We will delete it in its entirety to the extent required by law.  

At the bottom of our emails, we will remind you why you are receiving an email from us and also reminding you where you opted in to receive an email from us in the first place.


EU CITIZENS

The Frugal Housewife is aware that an EU citizen could be living abroad in a non-EU country.  In this case, it is impossible for The Frugal Housewife to identify them as EU citizens. We are compliant in our efforts to be within all the GDPR laws and have to the best of our ability used the tools that are available to identify EU citizens.  


GDPR COMPLIANCE

We are to the best of our knowledge GDPR compliant.

Therefore, we are applying the GDPR compliance rules to everyone that uses The Frugal Housewife, no matter their citizenship. 


YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS

By using this Site, The Frugal Housewife, you are agreeing that you accept the terms of this policy.  If you do not agree to the terms of this policy, please do not continue to use our Site. We reserve the right to make changes to this policy as needed to comply with the law.  Your continued use of the Site following any changes will be deemed as your acceptance of the changes that are made. 


CHANGES TO OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND OTHER POLICIES

The terms and conditions of use in this policy, along with our other policies are subject to change without notice.  Notification of changes will be announced here on this page. 

This policy was last updated on September 9, 2024. If you have any questions regarding our policies, please use our contact form.