Who I am

My web address is: http://danielawolfe.com. For information about what this site is all about and a little about who I am visit the About Me section of the website.

What personal data I collect and why I collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this site the data shown in the comments form is collected, 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. 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 via comments or otherwise, 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 form

The contact form will collect your name, email and IP Address. I will never share the information with anyone and will only use it in order to respond to you. I will discard any information collected at your request.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on my 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, a temporary cookie will be set 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, several cookies will be set up 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 I share your data with

Data collected by the website may be shared with the LIKEBTN, Jetpack and Akismet plugins. This sites tracks likes and dislikes based on IP Address, Device, and Cookies to prevent abuse of the system, tracks IP Addresses for security purposes through the Akismet plugin and to track user metrics via the Jetpack plugin. View the LIKEBTN privacy policy, the Akismet privacy policy and the Jetpack privacy policy.

How long I retain your data

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

For users that register on my website (if any), I 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). The website administrator (that’s me) 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 I hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data I are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where I send your data

Visitor comments are checked checked through the Akismet automated spam detection service.  Learn how your comment data is processed.

Your contact information

Any contact information you share via the subscription form, is never shared with anyone and I will only ever use it to send you newsletters or blog posts.

Additional information

How I protect your data

No information on this site will ever be shared with anyone, with the exception of those entities already mentioned. I keep your information protected behind a password system and make use of security features built into WordPress, the Jetpack and Wordfence Security plugins.

What data breach procedures I have in place

Administrative passwords are rotated as needed and I am monitor the site daily to ensure that no one has breached the security. Should information ever be breached, I will send out a notice to my subscribers immediately via a blog post.

What third parties I receive data from

I utilize stats collected from the Jetpack plugin. It collects WordPress.com user IDs/usernames (when logged in), timestamp, country code, user agent, referring URL, visiting url, & browser language. I have access to none of this information. I can see how many views certain pages get, and how many people have seen the site and what country they visited from, but I do not have access to individual IP addresses unless a person comments, fills out the contact form or pushes one of the like buttons. The stats log, which contains visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering the above listed features.

Jetpack tracks performance on each page load that includes the JavaScript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, JavaScript files, CSS files, etc.). Tracking honors the DNT (Do Not Track) setting from the user.