To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device.
Most big websites do this too.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How Do We Use Cookies?
We use cookies:
- to work the Rising Sign Calculator
- to deliver 3rd party content such as YouTube and Vimeo videos
- to manage sign up forms for Ruth's newsletter
- to remember your choices, such as whether you filled in a form and if you agreed (or not) to our use of cookies. Without this ability to remember your choice, you would be asked again every time you visit the site.
- The cookies we use are operated by third party services such as Astromix.net, Amazon, YouTube, Vimeo and GetResponse
Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.
Rising Sign Calculator
The Rising Sign Calculator is offered free of charge by Calculator Zone purely for your convenience. We do not collect or store any information that you enter into the app, and we have no affiliation with the developers.
Transparency Statement: Amazon Affiliate Links
We sometimes link book recommendations to Amazon.com and when you click the link a cookie is placed on your browser to let Amazon know that you went there from RuthHadikin.com
We get a very small commission* from the sale and it doesn't affect the price of your order in any way. We only recommend books that we feel may be helpful to you as part of your journey of self-exploration and would never recommend books or products simply for the sake of a tiny commission from Amazon.
*For example: The total Amazon commission for the 2018-19 tax year was $117 US dollars. After paying bank fees for currency conversion and to deposit a US check in a UK account, this was about £70 British Pounds ($90 USD)
Your Privacy and Google Analytics
In order to respect your privacy we're currently in the process of removing all unnecessary tracking cookies from this website. When this site was first created, some years ago, Google Analytics was recommended for monitoring the amount of visitors to a website. However site traffic can now be measured through a web hosting service without the use of tracking cookies directly on the website. Because some internet users have expressed concerns about excessive monitoring by Google, we have made the decision to remove Google Analytics and all unnecessary tracking codes from this site.
Private Secure Sharing Buttons
Throughout the site "AddThis" buttons for social media sharing have been replaced with private sharing buttons that allow you to share your favorite pages with your friends cleanly, without being tracked. Here's what the developer had to say:
"Most social-sharing-button services like AddThis and Shareaholic have little respect for your users' privacy, installing dozens of tracking cookies that follow your users around the web, and degrading the performance of your pages by making surreptitious requests in the background. Because of this, most adblockers now block them, making it hard for people to share your stuff at all."
read the full post at https://github.com/QuadrupleA/private-secure-sharing-buttons
The cookie-related information we use is never used to identify you personally.
These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described above.
How to Control Cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
If you have any questions or concerns about your privacy and/or our use of cookies please contact us.