Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.thehiddencoconut.co/
We write about our real experiences about what it’s like to live and work abroad in another country. All experiences and opinions are our own.
Terms and Conditions
The content on The Hidden Coconut is only to be used as a guideline for information purposes only. We cannot guarantee you will have the same outcome nor be liable for any errors or omissions in this information. We will also not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information.
Copyright
The contents of The Hidden Coconut is protected by copyright. All content including photos and text are our own unless otherwise stated. If you would like to use any contents from The Hidden Coconut, please contact us at [email protected].
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Newsletter
We use MailChimp as our email list provider. You can read about their privacy policy here. The Hidden Coconut will not sell your data or send spammy messages. We value our readers and only look to send you information that is beneficial to you.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
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.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service from Akisment.
Additional information
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Affiliates Discloser
Currently, I’m an affiliate with ShareASale and TravelPayOuts so you may see some of the advertisements on the site and links in my articles which are affiliate links. This means that I’ll collect a small percentage of the sale as a commission.
The reason that these are in place is that the small commissions add up and help support the costs to run the site without being overly intrusive to my audience’s experience and learning on the site.
These commissions will never come at a cost to you and I vow that whether a particular product offers a commission or not, it will never influence my recommendations. I know that trust takes a lifetime to build but only seconds to lose, so you can rest assured that I only link to products that I have used personally and would recommend, as a teacher, to my audience for the purpose of learning and exploring.
With that said, I’d like to sincerely thank you and my readers.
Stefanie
Last updated October 8, 2022