Privacy Policy

What personal data we collect and why we 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.

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.

Contact forms

We use contact forms to make it convenient for online visitors to contact us, ask questions, or make comments. We keep email receipts of the contact form data indefinitely. We do this so we can keep a record of your requests, comments, or questions so that we may follow up your correspondence if necessary.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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. These cookies will last for one year.

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. It expires after 1 day.

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.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

If you visit the website your IP address, physical location (country and or city), the pages you visit and the duration of your visit are shared with Google Analytics. If you make a purchase, your name, address, phone number, email address and payment information are shared with the payment gateway (Amazon, PayPal, Stripe (our credit card processor)) you choose at checkout. In no case do we rent, sell, share your personal information, contact information or purchasing history with any other entity.

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.

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.

Where we send your data

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

Your contact information

We keep a copy of your name and email address when you contact us through the website. We may also ask for your name, phone number, email address, and physical address either on contact forms or when you call our office phone. We will keep this information secure indefinitely unless requested by you to delete it.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We keep no credit card information on our website, nor do we store such information offline. All payments are processed by the payment gateways available on the checkout page.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Our website and database are continually monitored by our hosting company to detect and protect against, spyware, trojans, viruses and any malicious software in order to protect your sensitive data.

Our office computers are used to enter and retain your purchases online and will store your name, address, phone and email, purchase history, and payment method – but not any credit card or payment account information. Our computers are protected by firewalls, ant-virus, and anti-malware programs that continually monitor our internal network. Our account software is password protected and backup to cloud storage systems administered by Microsoft and/or Google.