Effective Date: June 29, 2026
At Earthy and Homely, we take privacy seriously and we respect the privacy concerns of our community of users. This Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy") describes how the publishing family operated by Earthy and Homely (collectively "Earthy and Homely," the "Company," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information in connection with our websites such as earthyandhomely.com (the "Sites"), mobile applications (the "Apps"), and the related content, services, products, and other features and functionality offered on or through those Sites and Apps that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Services") or off our Services.
Manage Your Information
For additional ways to delete, opt out, or manage your information, please see the "What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?" section below.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
The personal information we collect from and about you may vary depending on how you engage with our Services and the information you provide voluntarily. "Personal information" includes "personal data," "sensitive data," and other similar terms as defined in applicable privacy laws.
Information You Provide to Us
We may collect personal information directly from you or otherwise in connection with your interactions with us, such as:
- Contact and Registration Information — including your name, contact details (such as a postal address, email address, or phone number), event or conference registration and related information, and communication preferences.
- Inquiry Information — including information provided in messages sent through forms or surveys, to our email addresses, or via phone. This also may include information provided when you sign up for our newsletters.
- Account Information — including name, username, account ID, date of birth, contact information, profile information, saved, "liked," or bookmarked items, payment and purchase history information, subscription information, and courses enrolled in and completed.
- Financial Information — including credit and debit card information, bank account and routing number, and billing and shipping address.
- Demographic Information — including age, gender, race, income, occupation, marital status, and information about your household/family status.
- Health- or Fitness-Related Information — including exercise and activity levels, weight-loss objectives, dietary preferences, and other health and wellness information.
- User-Generated Content — including personal information you choose to provide about yourself when you participate in forums or discussions, post comments or reviews, and participate with or access any services.
- Contest, Sweepstakes, and Survey Information — including information provided when you enter a contest or sweepstakes, information included in any responses submitted through surveys or questionnaires, or the content of any testimonials.
- Inferences About Your Interests, Preferences, and Other Behavioral Data — including hobbies, interests, and characteristics, including your favorite foods, purchases, or recipes, consuming tendencies, and health and fitness information.
Information Automatically Collected
As is true of many digital properties, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect information you provide to us and information about your device and activities when you visit our Services or otherwise interact with us on or off our Services.
The type of information automatically collected includes:
- Device data — including internet protocol (IP) address, device or other digital IDs, operating system, device type and version, browser type and version, browser ID, the URL entered, the referring page, date/time of visit, other user agent string data, the time spent on or off our Services, and any errors that may occur during the visit to our Services or during your interactions with us.
- Analytics/Usage data — including the path taken to our Services, through our Services, and when exiting our Services, usage and activity on or in connection with our Services or off our Services (e.g., pages visited, links clicked, videos watched), metrics on how many emails we send are actually opened and which attachments or links are opened, clicked, or viewed.
- Location data — including geographic location we or our third-party providers may collect, such as via permissions within the app operating system or browser functionality.
- Advertising/Advertising measurement data — including data associated with your view of, or your clicks on, advertisements served on or off our Services, cookie IDs or other digital or proprietary identifiers assigned to such device, and device metadata, analytics/usage data, and location data described above, in each case, for purposes of serving advertising or facilitating advertising measurement/attribution.
Third-Party Sources
We also obtain personal information from third parties, which we often combine with personal information we collect either automatically or directly from an individual. For example, we may receive the same categories of personal information described in this Privacy Policy from the following third parties:
- Other Users who Interact with our Services — We may receive your personal information from other users who interact with us on or off our Services.
- Business Partners — We may receive your personal information from our business partners, such as companies that offer their products or services on our Services or on third-party properties.
- Social Media Networks — When an individual interacts with us directly or indirectly through various social media networks, we may receive some personal information from those social networks including your profile information.
- Information We Receive From Authentication Services — Some parts of our Service may allow you to login through a third-party social network or authentication service such as Facebook or Google.
- Service Providers and Vendors — Our service providers that perform services on our behalf collect personal information and may share some or all of this information with us.
- Information Providers — We may, from time to time, obtain personal information from third-party information providers to correct or supplement personal information we collect.
How Do We Use Personal Information?
We may use your information for various purposes, including:
- To fulfill your requests and provide our services — including making our Services available, coordinating access to your account, responding to requests and providing user support, fulfilling payments and transactions, sending service/transaction-related messages, providing and improving interactive features, saving your reading lists, and administering your participation in events and promotions.
- To personalize your experience — providing you with content or other products or services you might be interested in and de-emphasizing content you've already read or viewed.
- For marketing purposes — sending you communications about new features, updates, products, and special offers. We may also use your information to serve you ads about our products or other products we think might be relevant.
- To communicate with you — communicating about your account activities, sending transaction confirmations, alerting you when a subscription is up for renewal, and sending user surveys and promotional communications.
- To monitor, improve, and develop our products and services — understanding our users and tailoring or optimizing our Services or developing and improving other products and services.
- To protect the security and integrity of our business, comply with legal requirements and obligations — protecting our company, our affiliates, our customers, and our services, complying with laws and regulations, and assisting in investigations.
- For any other purposes with your consent — when we process your personal information based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
How Do We Disclose Personal Information?
The personal information we collect about you is used by all the companies and brands in the Earthy and Homely publishing family. We may also disclose personal information to third parties, including:
- Third Parties At Your Request — You may choose to disclose your activities on the Services with your friends through email, text, or on various social media networks.
- Promotional Partners — We may disclose personal information to third parties with whom we partner to provide contests, surveys, sweepstakes, or other joint promotional activities.
- Marketing and Strategic Business Partners — We may disclose personal information to marketing/advertising, analytics, and other business partners for purposes such as providing you with information or undertaking marketing/advertising activities.
- Online Advertising Partners — We may disclose personal information to third-party online advertising partners or permit these partners to collect information from you through our Services to facilitate online advertising.
- The Public — When you provide feedback or post user content on or off our Services, your personal information may be displayed on or off our Services or on our social media pages.
- Service Providers, Vendors, and Advisors — Personal information may be disclosed to vendors and other service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf.
- Purchasers and Third Parties in Connection With a Business Transaction — Personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, sale of any or all of our company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, or change of control.
- Law Enforcement, Regulators and Other Parties For Legal Reasons — Personal information may be disclosed to third parties as required by law or subpoena, or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary.
Notice Regarding Mobile Phone Number Collection and Sharing: If you have shared your mobile phone number with us for purposes of receiving text messages, please note that we do not share mobile contact information with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
Our Third-Party Data Collection and Online Advertising Practices
We, and our third-party partners, use information that we receive about you to serve advertisements that are more relevant to your interests, determine the content on which the ads will appear, identify audiences similar to you, optimize marketing and advertising campaigns, generate analytics, and provide marketing/advertising-related services such as reporting, market research, and measurement/attribution.
How We Collect This Information
The information used for our advertising practices depends on the advertising use case. However, information used for advertising is typically collected through tracking technologies, such as cookies, web beacons/pixels, SDKs, APIs, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, logging technologies, and similar technologies.
How To Exercise Your Choices Regarding Online Ads
Please see the "What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?" section below to learn how you can opt out of interest-based advertising.
What Controls Do I Have Over My Information?
You may control your information in the following ways:
- Access to, Modification of, or Deletion of Your Information — Depending on your location or place of residency, you may have the right to request access to your personal information, amendment/correction of inaccurate/incomplete personal information, or deletion of your personal information. Please contact us by emailing privacy@earthyandhomely.com for assistance.
- Marketing E-mail Preferences — You can manage your opt-out preferences for each of our brand's marketing e-mails by using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of such messages or visiting "E-mail Preferences" on our Services.
- Postal Mail and Marketing — To remove your name and postal address from lists that we sell or rent to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, send your request to customersupport@earthyandhomely.com with the subject line "Opt-Out Postal."
- Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies — You may manage cookies and other tracking technologies by clicking the Your Privacy Choices link in the website footer. You may also have the ability to change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, disable existing cookies, or automatically reject cookies.
- Online Ads — You may opt-out of some of the tracking technologies used for interest-based advertising as further set forth in our Your Privacy Choices link. To learn more about interest-based advertising, you may wish to visit the Digital Advertising Alliance's resources at https://optout.aboutads.info/.
How Do We Protect Personal Information?
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use. That said, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems at all times.
Children's Personal Information
Our Services are not designed or intended for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 16 (or the equivalent age of a child in your jurisdiction) on the Services. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the age of 16, we will endeavor to delete any such information promptly.
How Can You Contact Us?
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or about our privacy practices, you may contact us by emailing privacy@earthyandhomely.com.
If you are a U.S. State resident inquiring about your privacy rights under your respective State Privacy Law, please include "U.S. Privacy Rights Request" in the subject line of your email.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area inquiring about your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), please include "GDPR Privacy Rights Request" in the subject line of your email.
You may also write to:
225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281
U.S. State Privacy Notice
For residents covered under the State Privacy Laws (and Nevada, in the case of the "Notice to Nevada Residents" section only), this U.S. State Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy by providing additional information under such laws.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your state of residency, you may exercise the following rights under the State Privacy Laws:
| Right |
Description |
| The Rights to Confirm, Access, and Data Portability |
You have the right to obtain confirmation regarding whether we are processing your personal information and to access that personal information in a portable, readily usable format. |
| The Right to Deletion |
You have the right to request the deletion of personal information we have collected about you, subject to certain exceptions. |
| The Right to Correction |
You have the right to request that inaccuracies in your personal information be corrected. |
| Opt-Out Rights |
You have the right to opt-out of "sales" of personal information, sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising and "targeted advertising," and certain use/disclosure of "sensitive" personal information. |
| Rights Related to Profiling and Automated Decision-making |
You may have the right to opt out of certain profiling and automated decision-making and to request information about our automated decision-making activities. |
To Exercise Your Privacy Rights
To submit a request to exercise your right to access, deletion, or correction, please email privacy@earthyandhomely.com with the subject line "U.S. Privacy Rights Request."
Non-Discrimination and Appeals
You have the right to not receive "discriminatory" or "retaliatory" treatment for exercising the rights discussed above. Under certain State Privacy Laws, you may appeal our decision to not take action on your rights request by emailing privacy@earthyandhomely.com.
European Privacy Notice
This European Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to individuals located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland ("you") and to the services available in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland that link to this European Privacy Notice.
Controller of your Personal Data
The controller of your personal data under this European Privacy Notice is Earthy and Homely, with an address of 225 Liberty St, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10281. Our local representative with respect to the GDPR can be contacted at privacy@earthyandhomely.com.
Data Subject Rights
If you are located in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, you have the following rights in respect of your personal data that we hold:
- Right of access — You have the right to ask us for confirmation on whether we are processing your personal data, and access to the personal data and related information.
- Right to correction — You have the right to have your personal data corrected, as permitted by law.
- Right to erasure — You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data, as permitted by law.
- Right to withdraw consent — You have the right to withdraw consent that you have provided.
- Right to lodge a complaint — You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the member state of your habitual residence.
- Right to restriction of processing — You have the right to request the limiting of our processing under limited circumstances.
- Right to data portability — You have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
- Right to object — You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, as permitted by law, under limited circumstances.
To exercise any of these rights, please submit a request through email at privacy@earthyandhomely.com.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.