Disclaimer, Privacy & Cookies Policy

*Disclaimer & Legal Notice

I do not work for Electronic Arts Inc./Maxis/The Sims 4 creators or its licensors, and they have no connection to, affiliation with, or association with this website, nor have they endorsed me, and they are not responsible for the content of this website. All game content and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This website’s content is posted as my personal opinions, work, and advice for gameplay. Use or reference to this advice and content at your own risk.  I assume no responsibility for any other website that I link to from this site. All linkage and visits to other sites are at your own risk. I share information and links in good faith and not as a professional support or advisor.

Trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The Sims and The Sims 4 Logo are trademarks of Electronic Arts, Inc. Game content and materials copyright Electronic Arts Inc. and its licensors.

It is always advisable to backup your game before making changes or troubleshooting.

Privacy Policy

SheriGR/Sheri (“SheriGR.com“) operates SheriGR.com and may operate other websites. It is SheriGR.com‘s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

SheriGR.com uses an SSL for the increased security of its website visitors.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, SheriGR.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. SheriGR.com‘s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how SheriGR.com‘s visitors use its website. From time to time, SheriGR.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

SheriGR.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on monsheridesign.com blogs/sites. SheriGR.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to SheriGR.com‘s websites choose to interact with SheriGR.com in ways that require SheriGR.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that SheriGR.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at SheriGR.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with SheriGR.com are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, SheriGR.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with SheriGR.com. SheriGR.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

SheriGR.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. SheriGR.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, SheriGR.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

SheriGR.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on SheriGR.com‘s behalf or to provide services available at SheriGR.com‘s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using SheriGR.com‘s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. SheriGR.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, SheriGR.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when SheriGR.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of SheriGR.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an SheriGR.com‘s website and have supplied your email address, SheriGR.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with SheriGR.com and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. SheriGR.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. SheriGR.com uses cookies to help SheriGR.com identify and track visitors, their usage of SheriGR.com‘s website, and their website access preferences. SheriGR.com‘s visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using SheriGR.com‘s websites, with the drawback that certain features of SheriGR.com‘s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

SheriGR.com uses Google Analytics, and Google Analytics uses cookies. You can learn more about Google Analytics at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

SheriGR.com’s retention settings in Google Analytics are set to 26 months.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited.

Please also see aforementioned and following policies.

Business Transfers

If SheriGR.com, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that SheriGR.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of SheriGR.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, SheriGR.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in SheriGR.com‘s sole discretion. SheriGR.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a monsheridesign.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Who am I

SheriGR
aka Sheri

My website address is: https://SheriGR.com/

What personal data I collect and why I collect it

Comments

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

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Visitor comments may be checked through and automated spam detection service.

Please see aforementioned policies.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Please see aforementioned policies.

Analytics

SheriGR.com uses Google Analytics. You can learn more about Google Analytics at: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en

SheriGR.com’s retention settings in Google Analytics are set to 26 months.

Please also see aforementioned policies.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Please also see aforementioned policies.

Who we share your data with

Visitor comments may be checked through and automated spam detection service. Anti-spam detection service(s), malware detection service(s) and other data and malicious intent services may be currently used or used in the future for purposes of safety and security and with this intent.

SheriGR.com uses or may use plugins or other methods to perform backups compress, minify or otherwise optimize content for website speed, transfer of hosting, or other reasonable uses and services.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

SheriGR.com’s retention settings in Google Analytics are set to 26 months.

Please also see aforementioned policies.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Please also see aforementioned policies.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Please also see aforementioned policies.

Credits

Whenever possible, if I know who originally posted information, a workaround, or a solution, I will post this credit. If I miss crediting someone, I’m happy to correct this. Please use the contact form to inform me. Thank you for your understanding.

This site is not endorsed by or affiliated with Electronic Arts, or its licensors. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The Sims and The Sims 4 Logo are trademarks of Electronic Arts, Inc. Game content and materials copyright Electronic Arts Inc. and its licensors.

When and how to contact me

Please use the contact form to inform me of any website content or behavior issues. You’re also welcome to use the contact form to suggest a topic for this website. Questions are not answered via the contact form, though. Thank you for your understanding.

My contact information

Location
United States

Contact Form
https://sherigr.com/contact/