Privacy Policy for My Mental Health Awareness

Effective Date: October 3, 2025

My Mental Health Awareness ("we," "us," or "our") operates the website MyMentalHealthAwareness.com. We are committed to fostering a supportive community while protecting the privacy of our visitors. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding that information.

1. Who We Are

My Mental Health Awareness Website:https://mymentalhealthawareness.com

Contact:  blog@mymentalhealthawareness.com

Purpose: We are a mental health wellness blog and holistic support group, providing resources and information to support mental health issues, self-care and recovery.

2. What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

We collect data in several ways, which is necessary to run our site, analyse our content's reach, and communicate with you.

A. Information You Voluntarily Provide

• Contact Form Submissions (via Forminator Pro): We collect the information you enter—typically your Name, Email Address, and the content of your Message—to respond to your inquiries. This data is stored on our site temporarily and/or forwarded to our email system.

• Mailing List Sign-ups (via Hustle Pro): If you opt-in to our mailing list, we collect your Email Address and often your Name to send you content updates and related mental health information. Your sign-up is recorded with a timestamp and IP address for consent logging.

• Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

B. Data Collected Automatically (Technical, Analytical & Social)

• Google Analytics (via GA Google Analytics): This plugin places Google's tracking code on our site. Google Analytics collects information about how you use our site, including:

  • IP Address (anonymized)

  • Pages visited, time on site, and browser information

  • Geographical location (general) Purpose: We use this data to understand audience behavior, see which topics are most popular, and improve our content strategy.

• Social Sharing & Related Content (via Shareaholic): This plugin provides social sharing buttons and related content recommendations.

  • Data Collected: Shareaholic uses cookies and tracks user interactions (e.g., button clicks, content views) and anonymized IP addresses. This data is shared with the Shareaholic platform to provide our social analytics.

  • Purpose: To make it easy for you to share our content and for us to understand our content's reach on social media.

• Post Views Counter: This plugin is primarily a local analytic tool.

  • Data Collected: It tracks page views by monitoring the IP address of the visitor for a short period to prevent view count inflation. The data collected is aggregated and non-personal (counts only, not user identities).

  • Purpose: To show how popular our articles are and guide our content decisions.

• Security & Login Attempts (via Defender Pro): We log IP addresses, login attempts, timestamps of security events, and user IDs (for tracking lockouts).

  • Purpose: For website security, monitoring for malware, and blocking malicious login attempts.

• Website Performance & Optimization (via Hummingbird Pro & Smush Pro): These tools analyze anonymous data regarding your site's speed and image delivery. This data is non-personal and is used only to improve the user experience.

• Author Information (via Simple Author Box Pro): This plugin displays the author’s name, bio, and social links based on the WordPress user profile. It does not collect data from visitors, but it does link out to third-party social media sites.

3. Who We Share Your Data With

We share your data only when necessary to operate our services, and primarily with the following third-party data processors:

• Google Analytics: Anonymous website usage data is shared with Google Analytics. Google’s privacy practices govern how they use this information.

• Shareaholic: Your anonymized interaction data is processed by the Shareaholic platform for social sharing analytics.

• Mailing List Providers: Your email address (collected via Hustle Pro) is transferred to our third-party email service for the sole purpose of sending you our content updates.

• Social Media Platforms (via Simple Author Box Pro and Shareaholic): When you click on a social link or share button, you are directed to that platform, where they may collect data according to their own privacy policies.

4. How Long We Retain Your Data

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected:

• Comment Data: We keep comments and their metadata indefinitely.

• Contact Form Submissions: We generally keep these submissions for one year for communication and reference purposes.

• Mailing List Data (Hustle Pro): We keep this data until you actively unsubscribe.

• Security Log Data (Defender Pro): Security logs containing IP addresses are typically kept for 90 Days to investigate security incidents.

• Google Analytics Data: Data is retained according to the settings configured in our Google Analytics account, which is currently set to 18 months.

5. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you have the right to:

• Request an Export: Receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.

• Request Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): Request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, excluding any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

• Withdraw Consent: At any time, you can withdraw your consent to receive marketing emails by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email we send you.

6. Contact Information

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your rights regarding your data, please contact us using our contact form on our parent site, Dara Knot Wellness .

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