Privacy Policy

A LADY GOES WEST IS A PERSONAL BLOG MEANT FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT SERVE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE FROM YOUR OWN DOCTOR, TRAINER OR NUTRITIONIST. WHILE I’M A CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER AND GROUP FITNESS INSTRUCTOR, THE WORKOUTS, FOOD AND PLANS I POST ARE WHAT WORKS FOR ME AND MAY NOT WORK FOR YOU. PLEASE ENJOY THESE STORIES AND TIPS FROM MY LIFE, BUT PROCEED WITH CAUTION. ALSO, KNOW THAT AFFILIATE LINKS AND SPONSORED POSTS APPEAR, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT.

A Lady Goes West is a for-profit blog, owned by Ashley Pitt, located at www.aladygoeswest.com.

Affiliate links

Affiliate links are used from time-to-time in posts, in which I earn a small commission from purchases made, but the original price of the item is never altered for this purpose. Affiliate links are done through various third-party services, such as Rewardstyle, Shopstyle and others. A Lady Goes West is also a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. I’m also a Beautycounter consultant, and I do earn a commission off of orders placed through the affiliate links that lead to my personal Beautycounter website. In addition, I work with Les Mills as a partner and also earn a commission off of affiliate links that lead to Les Mills On Demand, now called Les Mills+.

Email lists

I do collect email addresses from readers for an email subscription list run through MailChimp, and those emails will never be shared with third parties. New posts by email are sent to the email list, as well as occasional updates. Subscribers of that list can choose to unsubscribe at any time.

Comments

If you leave a comment on this website, your name, email and IP address will be collected and stored.

Analytics

Your browsing behavior on this website and what referred you to this website may be tracked via Google Analytics using your IP address, but no personal information is collected.

There are advertisements placed by third parties on this site, including Mediavine and AdRoll. While I do not store or share any of your personal information, based on visiting this blog, the third parties can use your information (which could include your IP address, cookie identifiers and other tracking technologies, such as pixels and end-user website activity) to optimize the content through the use of cookies and retargeting. You can turn off the use of cookies at any time by changing your browser settings. If you’d like to opt-out of receiving targeted advertising, you can visit this site.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please Mediavine Partners.

Contact

If you have any questions, or it would like your contact information erased from this site, please contact ashley@aladygoeswest.com.

All content on this blog is owned by A Lady Goes West and Ashley Pitt. This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated in May 2022.