Privacy Policy

Who we are

Suggested text: Our website address is: https://soclinetech.ie.

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 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

Cookies

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. 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

This privacy policy (in EU) is in accordance with the Regulation No. 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons regarding the processing of personal data (the “GDPR”).

Please carefully read the following privacy policy which provides you, as the user of the Website and/or Application (the “User” or “You”), with the relevant information regarding the various processing of personal data implemented by soclinetech, in accordance with GDPR.

 This Privacy Policy applies to information that soclinetech or the service provider (Automattic) on behalf of soclinetech collects about you when you use:

• This website while you are logged in to your account with us.

Throughout this Privacy Policy we’ll refer to our website and services collectively as “Services.”

Below we explain how the website through its service providers may collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so–for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depends on the context and how we use the information. Here are some examples:

• Basic Account Information: Soclinetech ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. For example, we require individuals who sign up for a personal WordPress.com account to provide a username and email address–and that’s it. You may provide us with more information–like your name–but we don’t require that information to create a WordPress.com account.
• Public Profile Information: If you have an account with us, we collect the information that you provide for your public profile. For example, if you have a WordPress.com account, your username is part of that public profile, along with any other information you put into your public profile, such as a photo or an “About Me” description. Your public profile information is just that–public–so please keep that in mind when deciding what information you would like to include.
• Ecommerce Site Information: If you use the ‘OFAS Shop’ segment of this website to buy or sell products or services, you will have to create a personal account with us or connect an existing account and, for some of our ecommerce Services, provide your site URL. You may also provide us with information about your financial account to set up a payment’s integration, such as the email address for your Stripe or PayPal account or your bank account information.
• Content Information: Depending on the Services you use, you may also provide us with information about you in draft and published content (such as for your personal profile. For example, if you write a blog post that includes biographic information about you, we will have that information, and so will anyone with access to the Internet if you choose to publish the post publicly. This might be obvious to you…but it’s not to everyone!
• Credentials: Depending on the Services you use, you may provide us with credentials for your website. For example, Jetpack and VaultPress users may provide us with these credentials in order to use our one-click restore feature if there is a problem with their site, or to allow us to troubleshoot problems on their site more quickly.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

• Log Information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services–for example, when you create or make changes to your personal account under this site.
• Usage Information: The service provider of this website collects information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the actions that site administrators and users perform on a site using the WordPress.com or Jetpack services–in other words, who did what, when and to what thing on a site (e.g., [WordPress.com username] deleted “[title of post]” at [time/date]). The service provider (Automattic) uses this information to, for example, provide the Services to you, as well as get insights on how people use our Services, so we can make our Services better. Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions. We may also collect information about your precise location via our mobile apps (when, for example, you post a photograph with location information) if you allow us to do so through your mobile device operating system’s permissions. Stored Information: The service provider may access information stored on your mobile device via our mobile app. Automattic access this stored information through your device operating system’s permissions. For example, if you give us permission to access the photographs on your mobile device’s camera roll, our Services may access the photos stored on your device when you upload an amazing photograph of the sunrise to your website. Interactions with Other Users’ Sites: We collect some information about your interactions with other users’ sites while you are logged in to your account with us, such as your “Likes” and the fact that you commented on a particular post, so that we can, for example, recommend posts we think may interest you. As another example, for Intense Debate users, we collect information about the comments you make while logged in to your account, and use that information to, for example, tally up statistics about your comments (check them out in your dashboard!) and provide the information about your comments in your Intense Debate public profile. Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: 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. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. Automattic uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads.

 Information We Collect from Other Sources

The service provider (Automattic) may also get information about you from other sources. For example, if you create or log into your WordPress.com account through another service (like Google) or if you connect your website or account to a social media service (like Twitter) through our Publicize feature, we will receive information from that service (such as your username, basic profile information, and friends list) via the authorization procedures used by that service. The information we receive depends on which services you authorize and any options that are available.

We may also get information, such as a mailing address, from third party services about individuals who are not yet our users (…but we hope will be!), which we may use, for example, for marketing and advertising purposes like postcards and other mailers advertising our services.

How and Why the Service Provider Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

Automattic use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:

• To provide the Services–for example, to set up and maintain your account;
• To further develop and improve their Services–for example by adding new features that they think our users will enjoy or will help them to create and manage their websites more efficiently;
• To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with their Services, which helps them improve their Services and make them easier to use;
• To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of their advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition–for example, they may analyze how many individuals purchased a plan after receiving a marketing message or the features used by those who continue to use their Services after a certain length of time; and
• To monitor and prevent any problems with the Services, protect the security of the provided Services, detect, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of Automattic and others, which may result in them declining a transaction or the use of their Services.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under our Terms of Service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account–for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device; or

(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or

(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information–for example, to provide and update our Services, to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience, to safeguard our Services, to communicate with you, to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition, to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, and to personalize your experience; or

(5) You have given us your consent–for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in our Cookie Policy.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information.

We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

• Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
• Third Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you or your site. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you, registrars, registries, and data escrow services that allow us to provide domain registration services, and your hosting provider if your site is not hosted by Automattic), those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g. by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns), those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers), and companies that make products available on our websites (such as the extensions on WooCommerce.com), who may need information about you in order to, for example, provide technical or other support services to you. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them. Other vendors are listed in our more specific policies (e.g. our Cookie Policy).
• Legal Requests: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request. For more information on how we respond to requests for information about WordPress.com users, please see the Legal Guidelines of Automattic.
• To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of soclinetech.ie, Automattic, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
• Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Automattic goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
• With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties with which you authorize us to do so, such as the social media services that you connect to your site through our Publicize feature.
• Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services, and we may share a hashed version of your email address to facilitate customized ad campaigns on other platforms.
• Other Site Owners: If you have a WordPress.com account and leave a comment on a site that uses our Services (like a site created on WordPress.com or a site running Jetpack), your IP address and the email address associated with your WordPress.com account may be shared with the administrator(s) of the site where you left the comment.
• Published Support Requests: And if you send us a request (for example, via a support email or one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is disclosed publicly.

That means, of course, that information like your public profile, posts, other content that you make public on your website, and your “Likes” and comments on other websites, are all available to others–and we hope you get a lot of views!

For example, the photo that you upload to your public profile, or a default image if you haven’t uploaded one, is your Globally Recognized Avatar, or Gravatar–get it? :). Your Gravatar, along with other public profile information, will display with the comments and “Likes” that you make on other users’ websites while logged in to your WordPress.com account. Your Gravatar + public profile information may also display with your comments, “Likes,” and other interactions on websites that use our Gravatar service, if the email address associated with your account with us is the same as the email address that you use on the other website.

We also provide a “Firehose” stream of public data (like posts and comments) from sites that use our Services to provide that data to Firehose subscribers, who may view and analyze the content (all subject to our Terms of Service), but do not have rights to re-publish it, publicly.

Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.

Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it–which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information–and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.

For example, we keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to one of Automattic’s websites, such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyze traffic to Automattic’s websites and investigate issues if something goes wrong on one of our websites.

As another example, when you delete a post, page, or comment from your WordPress.com site, it stays in your Trash folder for thirty days just in case you change your mind and would like restore that content–because starting again from scratch is no fun, at all. After the thirty days are up, the deleted content may remain on our backups and caches until purged.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

To enhance the security of your account, we encourage you to enable our advanced security settings, like Two Step Authentication.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

• Limit the Information that You Provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, profile information, and transaction and billing information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our Services–for example, paid purchases –may not be accessible.
• Limit Access to Information on Your Mobile Device: Your mobile device operating system should provide you with the ability to discontinue our ability to collect stored information or location information via our mobile apps. If you do so, you may not be able to use certain features (like adding a location to a photograph, for example).
• Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.
• Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: At this time, Automattic does not respond to “do not track” signals across all of our Services. However, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using Automattic’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Automattic’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
• Close Your Account: While we’d be very sad to see you go, if you no longer want to use our Services    :(, you can close your account with us. Please keep in mind that we may continue to retain your information after closing your account, as described in How Long We Keep Information above–for example, when that information is reasonably needed to comply with (or demonstrate our compliance with) legal obligations such as law enforcement requests, or reasonably needed for our legitimate business interests.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• Request access to your personal data;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
• Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
• Request portability of your personal data.

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to do that, or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights at email@soclinetech.ie.

EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

Other Things You Should Know (Keep Reading!)

Transferring Information

The service provider Automattic is a worldwide service. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of information in and to the U.S. and other countries, which may have rights and protections that are different from those in your home country.

Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others

Ads appearing on any of our Services may be delivered by advertising networks. Other parties may also provide analytics services via our Services. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and across other websites and online services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us and other companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to your interests. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by Automattic and does not cover the collection of information by any third-party advertisers or analytics providers.

Third Party Software

Please note that soclinetech or Automattic don’t own or control the third parties and they have their own rules about collection, use and sharing of information. However, we will review and update the privacy policy including their in case if we decide to install and use third party software.

Our Users’ Websites

If you are a visitor to one of the Automattic users’ websites–a self-hosted WordPress site that has installed Jetpack, for example–please note that this privacy policy doesn’t apply to you in regard to that specific site. Automattic process information that visitors provide to us on behalf of our users and in accordance with our user agreements.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, OFAS as well as Automattic may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by providing a change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through e-mail or your dashboard). If you have a WordPress.com account, you should also check your dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of the Services after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your consent to such change.

Links to detailed privacy policy documents from the service provider (Automattic) and the plugins we use in this website.

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Privacy Notice for Visitors to Our Users’ Sites

Privacy Policy

Automattic and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

More information regarding the use of the website soclinetech and the implementation of our Privacy Policy

Data processing implemented by soclinetech

When the User visits to our website, or do any online purchase or transaction with / through soclinetech, or use our products, soclinetech implements a processing of personal data as follows:

Personal data collected

Regarding this processing, soclinetech collects the following personal data through the collection forms in the ordering process or other processes.

– Name;
– Gender;
– Age;
– Email address;
– Address;
– Country;
– Postal code;
– Phone number;
– Company name and industry you work for;
– Order information, such as the products you purchase, date and amount of the order;
– Payment information such as Credit card information (type, number, expiration date, CVV security code)/debit card information or other payment/billing information.
– Information we get from your visit to our websites. We collect information about how you visit our websites (including the webpage that led you to soclinetech website, the search terms entered into a search engine which led you to a soclinetech website);

Information we get from your use of our products. We collect information about the products that you use and how you use them and your local device information, including but not limited to your device information, operating system, user name, your soclinetech ID, location, IP address, operating log information, crash reports and the information and format of the files you are working with (with your additional consent);
– your product serial number;
– Content of customer support communications.

Purpose and legal basis of the processing

Soclinetech uses the information we collect about you for the following purposes:
In order for soclinetech to provide the User with the ordered product(s);
For the performance of a contract to which the User is party, in accordance with Article 6.1.b of the GDPR and the collected data are necessary in order for soclinetech to identify and bill the User and to charge its bank card number;
For Verifying your identity and Providing customer service or support;
Analyze your use of our websites and products to better understand how they are being used so we can improve our services and the user experience and engage and retain users.

Recipients of the personal data

We may also transmit your personal information with companies that help us to run our business by processing personal information on behalf of us for the purposes identified above. Such companies include providers of payment processing services, server services providers, data analysis services providers, fraud monitoring and prevention providers, email delivery service providers, social media, and other marketing platforms and service providers.
In addition, soclinetech may disclose the User’s personal data:
– if soclinetech is under a duty to disclose or share such personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to protect the rights, property or safety of its business, its customers or others; and
– to successors in title or replacement operators of all or part of soclinetech’s respective businesses.

Transfer of personal data

The collected personal data may be transferred by soclinetech to recipients which are located outside the European Union and such destinations may not have laws which protect the User’s personal data to the same extent as in the European Union.

Soclinetech ensures that the User’s personal data processed by soclinetech or by its suppliers and partners operating outside the European Union are treated securely and are protected against unauthorized access, loss or destruction, unlawful processing and any processing which is inconsistent with the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

Please find below the relevant information on transfer:

– Soclinetech may transfer the collected information to third party payment processors to complete the charge process;
– Soclinetech may transfer the collected information to providers of third party email delivery service to send promotion emails, or to other marketing platforms and service providers to complete relevant service;

– Soclinetech may use third party track tools (such as Google Analytics, LinkedIn, Quora) to track the information on how users use the products and websites, such information will be stored in third party servers. Such third-party track tools may send the data analysis report to Soclinetech for Soclinetech’s above mentioned purpose;
– Soclinetech may store the collected information on the servers leased from providers of third-party server service.

Processing of personal data related to comments areas

When the User decides to comment a Soclinetech product through the Website or the Application, Soclinetech implements a processing of personal data as follows:

Personal data collected

Regarding this processing, Soclinetech collects the following personal data:

– Email address;
– Name or nickname;
– profile photo;
– Other potential personal information provided by the User through its comment (age, location, etc.);
– The content of your comment.

Purpose and legal basis of the processing

This processing is implemented by Soclinetech to improve its products and provide the consumers and potential consumers with a better and transparent information about the Soclinetech products. Said comments and the related personal data are provided by the User on a voluntary basis so that the processing of the collected personal data relies on the User’s consent.
Soclinetech may use the comments (with your relevant information) you post for marketing purpose in order for others to better understand and use our products.

Recipients of the personal data

Soclinetech may transmit the collected personal data to third party email delivery service providers, social medias, other marketing platforms and service providers.

Transfer of personal data

The collected personal data are transferred by Soclinetech to recipients which are located outside the European Union and such destinations may not have laws which protect the User’s personal data to the same extent as in the European Union.

Soclinetech ensures that the User’s personal data processed by Soclinetech or by its suppliers and partners operating outside the European Union are treated securely and are protected against unauthorized access, loss or destruction, unlawful processing and any processing which is inconsistent with the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

Please find below the relevant information on transfer:

– Soclinetech may transfer the collected information to providers of third-party email delivery service to send promotion emails, to other marketing platforms and service providers to complete relevant service.
– Soclinetech may store the collected information on the servers leased from providers of third-party server service.

Cookies and trackers

When the User consults the Website and/or the Application, Soclinetech implements cookies and other trackers on the User’s device.

For additional information on cookies and trackers, please read Soclinetech’s Cookies Policy

User’s rights

To the extent required by the law of your jurisdiction, you may have below rights. Before you exercise below rights, you may consult your legal counsel if the laws of your jurisdiction stipulate below rights.

Rights

The right to be informed: The User has the right to be provided with clear, transparent, and easily understandable information about how Soclinetech collects and uses personal data and its rights. This is the reason why Soclinetech is providing the User with the information in this privacy policy.

The right of access: The User has the right to obtain access to its personal data (if Soclinetech is processing it), and other certain information (similar to that provided in this privacy policy).

The right to rectification: The User is entitled to have its personal data corrected if it’s inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to erasure: This ‘the right to be forgotten’ enables the User to request the deletion or removal of its personal data where there’s no compelling reason for Soclinetech to keep using it. This is not a general right to erasure; there are exceptions.

 The right to restrict processing: Under certain circumstances, the User has the rights to ‘block’ or suppress further use of its personal data.

The right to data portability: The User has the rights to receive its personal data provided to Soclinetech in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and has the right to transmit those data to another controller.

The right to object to processing: The User has the right to object, on grounds relating to its particular situation, at any time, to the processing of its personal data.

The right to lodge a complaint: The User has the right to lodge a complaint about the way Soclinetech handles or processes its personal data with its national supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL).

The right to withdraw consent: If the user has given its consent for a specific processing of its personal data implemented by Soclinetech, the User has the right to withdraw its consent at any time. In case the User does so, it does not mean that anything Soclinetech has done with the User’s personal data with its consent up to that point is unlawful).

The right to define instructions: The User has the right to define general or specific instructions regarding storage, deletion and use of its personal data after death.

Revision of this Privacy Policy

Occasionally, we may change this privacy policy (or other documents related to privacy policy) to allow Soclinetech to use or share your personal data in a different way. If we do, the links to the policy on our websites (which are generally found in the footer of the website) will indicate that the policy has been changed. For new users, the change will become effective upon posting. For existing users, if the change is significant, it will become effective 30 days after posting. We encourage you to periodically review the privacy policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Contacting Soclinetech

If the User needs to contact Soclinetech for any reason (including to exercise any of its rights in relation to data protection as set out above) please contact email@soclinetech.ie.
Soclinetech will act on the User’s requests and provide information free of charge, except where the requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive (in particular because of their repetitive nature) in which case Soclinetech may charge a reasonable fee (taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication, or taking the action requested), or refuse to act on the request.

Analytics

Who we share your data with?

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.