Privacy Policy

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

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

Akismet anti-spam service

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

iThemes Site Scanner

This site is scanned for potential malware and vulnerabilities by the iThemes Site Scanner. We do not send personal information to the scanner; however, the scanner could find personal information posted publicly (such as in comments) during the scan.

Analytics

When the Google Analytics tracking code loads on the page, a usage information is generated and then sent to Google Analytics. By default, this Google Analytics hit captures data like:

• Page Information
  • URL – the URL of the page the user is viewing
  • Title – the title of the page the user is viewing
• Browser Information
  • Browser name – the browser the user is using
  • Viewport or Viewing pane – the size of the browser window
  • Screen resolution – the resolution of the user’s screen
  • Java enabled – whether or not the user has Java enabled
  • Flash version – what version of Flash the user is using
• User Information
  • Location – this is derived from the IP address where the hit originated. The IP address itself is not available in GA as it is personally identifiable information (PII) which violates the terms of Google Analytics.
  • Language – derived from the language settings of the browser

We do not share your data with anyone without your direct consent.

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.

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.

This site is part of a network of sites that protect against distributed brute force attacks. To enable this protection, the IP address of visitors attempting to log into the site is sent to a service provided by ithemes.com. For privacy policy details, please see the iThemes Privacy Policy.

We retain your contact information if you have contacted us using a form or if you have signed up for a newsletter.

1. We transfer all data over HTTPS only
2. We update our website’s CMS with the latest security fixes
3. The data is stored in one of the largest all-in-one IT infrastructure suppliers in the Netherlands.

• If the data breach is identified, first we contact all affected parties.
• We investigate the reason of the data breach.
• We recover the user data and inform the users.
• We apply necessary procedures to prevent further breaches.

• Today we receive the depersonalized data from the Google Analytics service to observe aggregate behaviors of the users on this website and to improve the user experience.

We don’t use profiling services or automated decision making on user data.