Unless otherwise stated or noted, Shealea from Shut up, Shealea is the legal copyright holder of all the materials and content on this website. A link to shutupshealea.com must appear, should you choose to mention or reference any of its content.
By using this website, you hereby consent to these policies and agree to their terms. Kindly note that this page is subject to change without notice.
Art, Images, & Graphics Disclaimer
All the logo variations of Shut up, Shealea and the featured category images for books, media, and lifestyle (displayed prominently on the home page) were commissioned from local artists and are now under Shealea’s ownership. They cannot be used or repurposed without her explicit permission.
Supplementary visual content (i.e. Pinterest pins, post and page headers, post and page breaks) make use of free stock photos and free vectors from the listed websites:
- Freepik
- Sunflower vectors: photographeeasia, rawpixel
- Pexels
- Unsplash
Images of book covers used in reviews and other relevant blog posts are sourced from the following:
FTC Disclosure
Sponsored content and paid promotional posts on Shut up, Shealea are explicitly disclosed, and the same is true for the blog’s affiliations, paid partnerships, and endorsers.
All reviews written and posted on this blog are entirely based on personal opinion — be it books, media, or services/businesses. More specifically, all reviewed books are either purchased, borrowed, gifted, or received from the authors/publishers — and sources are disclosed within the reviews. As stated in her review policy, Shealea neither receives nor accepts monetary compensation for writing book reviews.
All blog posts are written by Shealea unless otherwise stated. Please do not copy or redistribute without her explicit, written permission.
Privacy Policy & Practices
Shealea is committed to upholding data privacy and protection – both for herself and for her readers. Shut up, Shealea does not engage in unauthorized sharing or selling of data to third-party entities. It is also worth noting that this blog uses cookies, which can be enabled or disabled by you. See below for a more in-depth explanation of this website’s privacy policies.
More on Privacy Policy & Practices
Information Collected
Personal Data
Certain activities on this website may ask you to provide personally identifiable information. For the most part, this includes your name, email address, and website (if applicable). This data is collected whenever you do any of the following actions:
- Leave a comment on Shealea’s content
- Submit a contact form
- Subscribe to Shealea’s blog via email
Comments
When you leave comments on this website, the data shown in the comments form is collected, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection.
Cookies & Tracking Technologies
Shut up, Shealea uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to store information about your preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages you access or visit, and to personalize or customize web page content based on your browser type. However, these cookies contain no personally sensitive data that can be used to identify you.
Nonetheless, cookies can easily be disabled during your visit. For instructions on how to disable cookies, you may reference these guides for Google Chrome and Firefox.
Log Files
Much like many other Web sites, Shut up, Shealea makes use of log files. These files merely log you to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information inside the log files includes your IP addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks.
This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track your movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable to you.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, articles and the like. Embedded content behaves in the exact same way as if you have visited the other website.
More specifically, these other 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.
Neither Shealea nor Shut up, Shealea has access to or control over the behavior of embedded content from other websites.
Advertising Partners
Shut up, Shealea has multiple advertising partners — and some of them may use cookies and web beacons on this site. Advertising partners include:
- Amazon
- Google and Google Adsense
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on this website. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by these third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.
Neither Shealea nor Shut up, Shealea has access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Privacy Policies
COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Policy)
Shealea believes in the importance of providing added protection for children and minors online. She does not knowingly collect any information, especially personally identifiable data, from visitors under the age of 13. In addition, this website is not intended for children under the age of 13.
Kindly visit the FTC website for more information about COPPA.
Third-Party Use & Policies
As a general rule, Shealea does not share your information publicly, except for the trusted third parties needed to operate this website and/or to authorities in order to comply with state rules and regulations. She also does not engage in any unauthorized selling of personal data to third-party entities.
Regarding this website’s advertising partners, it is advisable that you consult their respective privacy policies for more detailed information on their practices, as well as for instructions about how to opt out of certain practices.
Shut up, Shealea‘s privacy policy does not apply to, and Shealea cannot control the activities of, these third-party ad servers and other such entities.
Online Privacy Policy Only
These privacy policies apply only to the online activities on Shut up, Shealea. Moreover, they are valid solely for visitors of this website and regarding information shared and/or collected here.
These policies do not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using this website, you hereby consent to these policies and agree to their terms. Shealea reserves the right to update, amend, or make any changes to these privacy policies without notice.
