Privacy Policy — Chic and Grace
Effective date: October 29, 2026.
Chic and Grace (“we”, “us”, “our”) is a fashion and style blog for women over 50. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit this website, how we use it, and what choices you have. By using this website, you agree to this policy.
Information We Collect
Information you provide: If you contact us through our contact form, we collect the name, email address, and message you enter, so that we can reply to you. We do not ask for payment details, home addresses, or phone numbers.
Automatically collected information: When you visit, we may collect your IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, and time spent on pages, through cookies and analytics tools. This data is aggregated and does not identify you personally.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and this website is not directed at children.
Cookies
Cookies are small files stored on your device that help a website remember you and understand how it is used. We use strictly necessary cookies (site operation and security), preference cookies (remembering your settings), analytics cookies (understanding traffic), and advertising cookies (showing relevant ads). You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, though some parts of the site may not work properly without them.
Advertising and Google AdSense
This website uses Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies, including the DoubleClick DART cookie, to serve ads to you based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings at https://adssettings.google.com and the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at https://optout.networkadvertising.org.
We do not control the cookies set by advertisers. Their use of your information is governed by their own privacy policies.
Analytics
We may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use this site. Google Analytics uses cookies and collects anonymized information such as pages visited and approximate location. You can opt out with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Affiliate Links
Some links on this site are affiliate links, including links to Amazon. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Affiliate partners may use cookies to track referrals. See our Terms and Conditions for the full affiliate disclosure.
Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content
Our posts link to third-party websites, such as retailers and Pinterest. Their privacy practices are their own, and we encourage you to read their policies. Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you had visited that website directly, and it may collect data and set cookies.
How We Use and Protect Your Information
We use the information we collect to operate the site, respond to your messages, understand our audience, and display advertising. We do not sell your personal information to anyone. We take reasonable technical and administrative measures to protect it, but no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure.
Data Retention
Contact-form messages are kept only as long as needed to respond to you. Analytics data is retained in aggregated form according to the analytics provider’s settings.
Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information. Visitors from the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom also have rights under the GDPR, including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection. California residents have rights under the CCPA, including the right to know what personal information we hold and to request its deletion. We do not sell personal information. To make a request, contact us through the contact form on this website.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes take effect when posted on this page, with the effective date updated above.
Contact Us
Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact form on this website.
