When You Visit a Website Like This, Certain Information May Be Collected
Informed consent is greatly important to me and the work I do. Not only do I want you to feel empowered to say yes or no, I also want you to feel confident in gathering all of the information you need to make good choices for yourself, including your privacy.
To do this work, I need to collect some information about you. This page is to explain what information is collected on this website, how it is used and your choices about this collection. As a solopreneur, I do not store your information – rather I entrust it with companies who have the means to provide premium security.
Your personal information is collected when:
- You share your name and email addresses on our contact forms, for which I use WPforms and Google Forms (HIPAA Compliant).
- You share your name and email address or username in comments left on blog articles.
- You share your name and email address to sign up for email list, which we use Mailerlite.
- You share your payment information to make a payment, which we use PayPal.
- You share your name and email address to book a free discovery call or virtual session, which we use Calendly and Google Meet.
- You share your email address so that I can provide you with paid email content and support – again, I use Mailerlite for automated emails.
I use this information to stay in touch with you, to provide free content, inform you of my offerings and to work together.
Websites also collect non-personal data – which means information that doesn’t have anything that could be used to personally identify you – because is useful in understanding how the websites are being used. For example, how many visitors read the website this month? Which blog articles were most popular? What posts were shared through social media?
Where is this information stored?
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 in a comment, 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
To allow visitors to send me messages directly from this website, I use WPForms. Thus, in sending me a message, WPForms will be using your name and email address in accordance to their own privacy policy.
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.
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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
What rights you have over your data
If you 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.