Privacy Policy

Last Updated: February 24, 2025

Who we are

Our website address: https://www.elizabethalarcon.com

Elizabeth Alarcón is operated by Elizabeth Alarcón-Gaxiola.

Contact Information

Mailing Address: 2150 Portola Avenue Suite D #1090 Livermore, CA 94551

Support Email Address: support@elizabethalarcon.com

What personal data do we collect, and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser user agent string to help detect spam.

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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Forms

If you sign up for the newsletter, the data is collected via ActiveCampaign. We only collect the information you have entered into the form, such as your name (first and last name) and email. You can always opt out by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the end of any email.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so 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 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 set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, and screen options cookies last 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 indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

For more details, please read our Cookie Policy here.

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 like the visitor visiting another website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who do we share your data with

We use some WordPress plugins on this site that may pass data, including personal information, to external servers to process, such as Akismet Anti-Spam, Jetpack by WordPress.com, and Google Analytics.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

We store the personal information provided by users who register on our website (if any) in their user profiles. 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 do 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 must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where do we send your data?

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

California Privacy Rights

Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code provides that residents of California can obtain certain information about their personal information (as defined under Section 1798.83(e)(6) of the California Civil Code) that companies have shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, as well as the identity of those third parties. Personal information, as defined under the California Civil Code, includes, but is not limited to, data relating to a living individual who is or can be identified either from the data or the data in conjunction with other information that is in or is likely to come into, the possession of the data controller. To request a copy of your Personal Information maintained by us, don't hesitate to contact us at support@elizabethalarcon.com.

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), California residents are entitled to access, delete, and/or opt out of the sale of their Personal Information. More specifically, the CCPA’s right of access includes a right of portability, which allows you to obtain your Personal Information in a readily usable format. 

Exercising Access and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access and deletion rights described above, you may submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

Emailing us at support@elizabethalarcon.com.

Requests to access Personal Information can only be made twice within 12 months. We will respond within 45 days of receiving a Personal Information request.

Additional information

Activity Log

Data Used: To deliver this functionality and record activities around site management, the following information is captured: user email address, user role, user login, user display name, WordPress.com and local user IDs, the activity to be recorded, the WordPress.com-connected site ID of the site on which the activity takes place, the site’s Jetpack version, and the timestamp of the activity. Some activities may also include the actor’s IP address (login attempts, for example) and user agent.

Activity Tracked: Login attempts/actions, post and page update and publish actions, comment/pingback submission and management actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, and modifying other various site settings and options. Retention duration of activity data depends on the site’s plan and activity type. See the complete list of currently recorded activities (along with retention information).

Data Synced: Successful and failed login attempts will include the actor’s IP address and user agent.

Ads

Data Used: The following information (made available from the visitor’s browser) is collected and sent to Automattic’s Demand Partners: IP address, geographical data (derived from the IP address), user agent, operating system, device type, unique user ID (randomly generated identifier), current URL, and IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) interest category. Log data (IP address, geographical data, user agent, operating system, device type) is stored for 30 days. The unique user ID is stored in cookies and is retained for 1 year.

Activity Tracked: Ad impressions, video-related events (i.e., pause, mute, 100% plays, etc.) or errors, and ad click events. Various cookies deliver targeted advertisements to specific visitors, store user identifiers, and collect anonymous ad platform stats.

Affiliate Links

This site uses affiliate links. Clicking on or purchasing via an affiliate link may result in commissions for this site. In addition, we may use and promote services provided by outside third parties. Sites linked to our Site, which we do not control, will all have privacy policies and data collection practices; therefore, it will be up to you (the user) to access them. We are not responsible for any loss or damage incurred due to any transactions with any third-party website, operator, or merchant.

Carousel

Image views are only recorded if the site owner has explicitly enabled image view stats tracking for this feature via the jetpack_enable_carousel_stats filter.

Data Used: If image view tracking is enabled, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

Activity Tracked: Image views.

Comment Likes

This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: To process a comment like, the following information is used: WordPress.com user ID/username (you must be logged in to use this feature), the local site-specific user ID (if the user is signed in to the site on which the like occurred), and a true/false data point that tells us if the user liked a specific comment. Suppose you perform a like action from one of our mobile apps. In that case, some additional information is used to track the activity: IP address, user agent, timestamp of event, blog ID, browser language, country code, and device info.

Activity Tracked: Comment likes.

Contact Form

Data Used: If Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the site's database on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e., the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.

Data Synced: Post and post metadata associated with a user’s contact form submission are synced. If Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are also synced, as they are stored in the post meta.

Google Analytics

Data Used: Please refer to the appropriate Google Analytics documentation for the specific type of data it collects. For sites running WooCommerce (also owned by Automattic) and this feature simultaneously and having all purchase tracking explicitly enabled, purchase events will send Google Analytics the following information: order number, product ID and name, product category, total cost, and quantity of items purchased. Google Analytics does offer IP anonymization, which the site owner can enable.

Activity Tracked: This feature sends page view events (and potentially video play events) to Google Analytics for consumption. For sites running WooCommerce-powered stores, additional events are also sent to Google Analytics: shopping cart additions and removals, product listing views and clicks, product detail views, and purchases. The site owner must enable tracking for each WooCommerce event.

Gravatar Hovercards

Data Used: This feature will send a hash of the user’s email address (if they are logged in to the site or WordPress.com—or if they submitted a comment on the site using their email address that is attached to an active Gravatar profile) to the Gravatar service (also owned by Automattic) to retrieve their profile image.

Infinite Scroll

Data Used: To record page views via WordPress.com Stats (which must be enabled for page view tracking here to work) with additional loads, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, and country code.

Activity Tracked: Page views will be tracked with each additional load (i.e., when you scroll down to the bottom of the page, a new set of posts loads automatically). If the site owner has enabled Google Analytics to work with this feature, a page view event will also be sent to the appropriate Google Analytics account with each additional load.

Jetpack Comments

Data Used: Commenter’s name, email address, site URL (if provided via the comment form), timestamp, and IP address. Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter’s local user ID (if available), commenter’s local username (if available), commenter’s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter’s email address (if available), and the comment content. Suppose Akismet (also owned by Automattic) is enabled on the site. In that case, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter’s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.

Activity Tracked: The comment author’s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies.

Data Synced: All data and metadata (see above) associated with comments. This includes the comment's status and, if Akismet is enabled on the site, whether or not it was classified as spam by Akismet.

Likes

This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: To process a post-like action, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID (on which the post was liked), post ID (of the post that was liked), user agent, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

Activity Tracked: Post likes.

Mobile Theme

Data Used: A visitor’s preference for viewing the mobile version of a site.

Activity Tracked: A cookie (akm_mobile) is stored for 3.5 days to remember whether or not a site visitor wishes to view its mobile version.

Notifications

This feature is only accessible to registered site users logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. This feature may send visitor-related information or activity to the site owner. This may include email address, WordPress.com username, site URL, comment content, follow actions, etc.

Activity Tracked: Sending notifications (i.e., when we send a notification to a particular user), opening notifications (i.e., when a user opens a notification that they receive), acting from within the notification panel (e.g., liking a comment or marking a comment as spam), and clicking on any link from within the notification panel/interface.

Protect

Data Used: To check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: the attempting user’s IP address, the attempting user’s email address/username (i.e., according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.

Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie (jpp_math_pass) for 1 day to remember if/when a user has completed a math captcha to prove they’re real humans.

Data Synced: Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.

Search

Data Used: Any visitor-chosen search filters and query data to process a search request on the WordPress.com servers.

Sharing

Data Used: When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet is active on the site), the following information is used: sharing party’s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed. Additionally, if the site owner enables reCAPTCHA (by Google), the sharing party’s IP address will be shared with that service. You can find Google’s privacy policy here.

Simple Payments (Stripe and PayPal)

Data Used: Transaction amount, transaction currency code, product title, product price, product ID, order quantity, PayPal payer ID, and PayPal transaction ID.

Activity Tracked: The PayPal payer ID, transaction ID, and HTTP referrer are sent with a payment completion tracking event attached to the site owner.

Data Synced: PayPal transaction ID, PayPal transaction status, PayPal product ID, quantity, price, customer email address, currency, and payment button CTA text.

Because PayPal processes payments, we recommend reviewing its privacy policy.

Here is Stripe's privacy policy.

Subscriptions

Data Used: To initiate and process subscriptions, the following information is used: the subscriber’s email address and the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed). In the event of a new subscription being initiated, we also collect some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user’s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI that was given to access the page (REQUEST_URI and DOCUMENT_URI). This server data is used to monitor and prevent abuse and spam.

Activity Tracked: Functionality cookies are set for 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if they have an active subscription.

Video Hosting

Data Used: For video play tracking via WordPress.com Stats, the following information is used: viewer’s IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, and country code. If Google Analytics is enabled, video play events will also be sent there.

Activity Tracked: Video plays.

WordPress.com Secure Sign On

This feature is only accessible to registered users with WordPress.com accounts.

Data Used: User ID (local site and WordPress.com), role (e.g., administrator), email address, username, and display name. Additionally, for activity tracking (see below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, and country code.

Activity Tracked: The following usage events are recorded: starting the login process, completing the login process, failing the login process, successfully being redirected after login, and failing to be redirected after login. Several functional cookies are also set, explicitly detailed in our cookie documentation.

Data Synced: The user ID and role of any user who successfully signed in via this feature.

WordPress.com Stats

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, and country code. Important: The site owner cannot access any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used to power this feature.

Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if WordPress.com hosts videos), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load when this module is enabled, including the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites to ensure our plugin and code are not causing performance issues. This includes tracking page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner can force this feature to honor visitors' DNT settings. By default, DNT is currently not honored.