Privacy Policy

At Life with Siamese Cats we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Life with Siamese Cats as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

Life with Siamese Cats strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

About Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that Life with Siamese Cats stores on your computer, which your browser provides to Life with Siamese Cats each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

Life with Siamese Cats uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Life with Siamese Cats uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies.

We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

In order to perform a year-on-year comparison of any data collected by Google Analytics, the Data Retention settings at Google Analytics have been set to 14 months, after which Google automatically deletes the data.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Advertising Cookies

Your personal data/cookies are used for personalized advertising.

We use third-party advertising companies (Google AdSense) to serve ads on our website. You can find out more about Google's advertising partners here.

These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page.

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.

Affiliate Products and Services

We recommend products from affiliate companies featured on the site that we have either purchased, or would purchase ourselves, and which we believe would benefit you. We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products and services recommended on Life with Siamese Cats, at no extra cost to you.

By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the relevant privacy policy link below.

The affiliate services platforms we use are:

For further information please also see our Affiliates Disclosure.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. However, if you choose to refuse Life with Siamese Cats' cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was introduced in 2018 specifically to protect the data of individuals. Although at present it only protects people in the European Economic Area (EEA) and UK, its extremely high standards should be a standard for everyone's privacy protection, worldwide.

Life with Siamese Cats values the privacy of everyone who visits this site, no matter where you may come from. That's why all my privacy policies and practices, not only those that affect Europeans, follow the GDPR's stringent requirements.

California Consumer Privacy Act Statement (CCPA/CPRA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted in 2018 and amended by the California Privacy Rights Act in 2023, created new consumer rights relating to the access to, deletion of, and sharing of personal information collected by businesses.

Life with Siamese Cats has not knowingly sold any personal information in the previous 12 months.

Brazil's LGPD

Brazil's Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD), enacted in 2020, creates new data protection and privacy in the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Google has provided a list of Ad Technology Providers that have been certified for LGPD with Google and who may receive Brazilian user data through an ad request.

Personally Identifiable Information

Life with Siamese Cats may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

To run and operate our site
To display content on the site correctly
To improve customer service and help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently
To personalize your user experience and make your experience of using the site more enjoyable
To understand how our users, as a group, use the services and resources provided on our site
To improve our site
To improve our products and services
To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature
To send information to you, that you agree to receive, about topics we think will be of interest to you
To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails
To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

Life with Siamese Cats may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form (e.g. Contact Us), we will ask for your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Life with Siamese Cats contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet Service Provider you used, and other similar information.

The information and statistics thus collected, such as the site pages visited and the length of stay on site, helps us know which parts of the site are most visited, so that we can focus on adding new articles you may wish to read.

Children's Privacy Protection

Internet child safety issues are very important to Life with Siamese Cats and our aim is to ensure that the site is family-friendly.

However, this website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations, including the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and Article 8 of the GDPR.

Anyone under the age of 16 must have a parent or guardian provide consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell Life with Siamese Cats, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, stored on the SiteSell servers, please click this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking this link.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

Life with Siamese Cats reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to Life with Siamese Cats' privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.