Affiliate Marketing

My Money Cottage contains affiliate and advertising links, which helps the site to generate revenue. An affiliate link is a link to a product or service, and when you click through to sign up, make a purchase, sign up, etc then we receive a commission, at no extra cost to you. Some of our advertising partners include, but are not limited to Groupon, Profit Accumulator, Amazon Associates and eBay.

My Money Cottage is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk.

Cookies

At My Money Cottage, we take the privacy of our visitors very seriously. This policy contains details of the personal information we receive and collect when you visit the My Money Cottage website, and the measures we take to safeguard that information.

Please note that we will NEVER sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We make use of cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

My Money Cottage uses third party advertisements to support the ongoing development of the site. These advertisers, which include Google, may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites). You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to log in to leave a comment. You can visit Google’s Privacy & Terms to see how Google uses information from sites that use their services.

You can choose to opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings and changing your preferences.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Subscribing

When you subscribe to anything on My Money Cottage, including free downloads or the Matched Betting Beginners Course, you are required to double opt-in.

This means that you will be sent a confirmation email, and your subscription will not be live until you click that link.

When subscribing you will also be sent newsletters and other special offers.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of every email, or emailing me at hello@mymoneycottage.com to be removed.

Please note that your details are stored with my mailing list provider, Convert Kit.

Outside websites

My Money Cottage contains links to other websites, and we are not responsible for content or the privacy policies on other websites.

Comment Policy

By leaving a comment on any page or post on My Money Cottage, you accept that:

  • Comments may be published at the bottom of blog posts.
  • Whatever you enter into the ‘name’ field will be public, so you may wish to use your first name or an alias.
  • Your email address will not be published, and by leaving a comment with your email address you are not subscribing to any newsletters from me (you might choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment, and there is a link to unsubscribe in any emails you are sent.)
  • Your IP address will be logged when you leave a comment, this will not be visible.

Comments are held for moderation, and are approved at our discretion.

Subject Access Request

To see a copy of the information I hold about you, under section 7 of the Data Protection Act, please email hello@mymoneycottage.com, with your name and email address. Your email needs to come from the email address you used, so that I can make sure I am not sending personal data to the wrong person. If you no longer have access to the email account you used, then you will still need to let me know which email address you used, and provide photographic proof of ID such as a photo of your driving license.

Please note that the law permits me 30 days to respond to a Subject Access Request.

Data breaches

If any data breaches do take place then I will let you know as soon as I am made aware of it.