Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://MarciaWalsh.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We value your privacy!  By default our website does not collect any personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User Profile screen which is provided by registered users.

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 value your privacy.  We may keep contact form submissions for customer service purposes only (i.e. to respond to your query), but do not add your information to any email list or share any of the information you provide with any other websites or organizations.  We never use the information submitted through our contact form for any marketing purposes.

Cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser.

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

By design, we do not use embedded content from other websites.  In this way we protect your privacy from any third party providers.

Analytics

We will never (and will not allow any third party) use a statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. Web Analytics vendors do not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. Neither we nor the web analytics Vendors will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your personal data with any third parties.  Comments are checked by Akismet, an anti-spam service.

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 Akismet, an automated spam detection service.  We will never (and will not allow any third party) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. The Web Analytics vendors do not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. Neither we nor the web analytics Vendors will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.

Our contact information

Our contact information, including office addresses and telephone numbers, are listed on the “Contact Us” page.

How we protect your data

Our website does not collect personal data by default.  In addition, we have security and firewall installed in place on this website to protect visitors against any data breech.

What data breach procedures we have in place

We have security and firewall in place to protect any data from brute force and/or hacking attacks.  In addition, we do not collect personal data about our visitors.

What third parties we receive data from

By default this website does not collect or share any personal data with anyone.   Visitor comments may be checked through Akismet, an automated spam detection service.

What automated decision making and/or profiling

There is no automated decision making or profiling on this website.

What we do with user data

We do not collect visitor data.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Anti-Spam Service Akismet: 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).