Who we are
Our website address is: https://reallyspeakforme.com.
Why we collect your data
This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use reallyspeakforme.com, as well as the steps we take to safeguard that information. We hope that this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
Your Child’s Privacy
This website is for adults. It is not for children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.
Visitors
Visitors are not required to provide any information about themselves unless they want to comment on articles or contact the website owners. As a visitor, you can browse the website, at any time, to find out what it’s about and to gain information about its services. You are not required to provide us with any personal information.
What personal data we collect
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 anonymised string created from your e-mail 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
If you need or want to contact us, use the “Contact Me” form that you will find on our website. It will ask for your name, email address, the subject of the communication as well as the actual message.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, e-mail 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.
Third party tracking tools
We also use third party tracking tools to improve the performance of our website. These third party tracking tools are designed to collect only non-personal information about your use of our website. However, such tools are created and managed by parties outside our control. As such, we are not responsible for what information is actually captured by such third parties or how such third parties use and protect that information.
Log Information
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you’re headed when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the internet, your internet website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all of this information to help improve our website.
Analytics
Our aim is to continuously improve our website. We, therefore, reserve the right to collect and use any non-personal information for internal analytics. Furthermore, your personally identifiable information is never used for such internal analytics.
To assist us in analysing how our website is used, we use third party service providers. These third-parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data for its own ads. You can opt-out of this service by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Links to third party websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not under our direct control. These websites have their own policies regarding privacy. We have no control of or responsibility for linked websites and provide these links solely for the convenience and information of our visitors. You access such linked websites at your own risk. They are not subject to this Privacy Policy. You should check the privacy policies, if any, of those individual websites to see how they will utilise your personal information.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
If you contact us using the “Contact Me” form provided, we will retain your personal information only for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
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 an automated spam detection service.
