I do not collect any personal information from you through cookies of any kind on this website. I have no need to know where you are from, who you are, how you surf the net, or anything else about you. I’m just glad you dropped by. I do not allow people to register to this WordPress site, therefore cookies that would store your name and email address are not present here.
However, if you choose to subscribe to the weekly newsletter, you will be submitting your email address and your name if you choose to give them, to MailChimp, the email list server that I use. Their privacy policy may be found here. They are compliant with the strictest of privacy standards.
As of May 14, 2018, I no longer have a relationship with Google Adsense or Google Analytics in order to protect your privacy..
Further Details:
Who we are
Our website address is: https://katherinewalden.com.
This website is owned by Katherine Walden, and this is not a business site.
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 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.
Comments
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 visit our login page, 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.
Media
We do not use images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.
Contact forms
I delete any contact form information in any submission after I respond to them; no data is saved beyond a week. Furthermore, comments are not viewable by the general public.
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.
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. (*YouTube Videos*)
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. We suggest that you log out of such sites, such as YouTube, before watching the YouTube Videos we have on this site.
Analytics
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).
Who we share your data with
MailChimp is our email mailing list provider. When you sign up for our mailing list, we give your email address to them. Once again, MailChimp has a robust privacy protection system.
By default WordPress does not share any personal data with anyone.
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.
As we do not allow users to actually register for this site, we do not store any personal 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. Of course, if we already deleted your comments and/or account, we cannot give you an exported file as you no longer exist in our database.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service, however no other data is sent to any other service.
Contact information
Email us by using this form:
How we protect your data
In this section you should explain what measures you have taken to protect your users’ data. This could include technical measures such as encryption; security measures such as two-factor authentication; and measures such as staff training in data protection. If you have carried out a Privacy Impact Assessment, you can mention it here too.
What data breach procedures we have in place
As we do not collect any data that contains any personal information such as your address, credit cards, government identification, etc on this site and as we use SiteGround who have very strict and advanced privacy features, we feel that this suffices.
Other Information:
I use Jetpack, a plugin for WordPress. This is the information they gather on my behalf.
Comment Likes
This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.
Data Used: In order to process a comment like, the following information is used: WordPress.com user ID/username (you must be logged in to use this feature), the local site-specific user ID (if the user is signed in to the site on which the like occurred), and a true/false data point that tells us if the user liked a specific comment. If you perform a like action from one of our mobile apps, some additional information is used to track the activity: IP address, user agent, timestamp of event, blog ID, browser language, country code, and device info.
Activity Tracked: Comment likes.
Contact Form
Data Used: Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.
Data Synced (?): Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission. If Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.
Sharing
Data Used: When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet is active on the site), the following information is used: sharing party’s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed. reCAPTCHA (by Google) is NOT enabled by the site owner, the sharing party’s IP address will NOT be shared with that service. You can find Google’s privacy policy here.
When you use the SHARE buttons to share an article, you will be logging into the various sites you might share the article, such as FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Please read THEIR privacy information to find out what their policies are and what they do with your personal information.
We use the WP Statistics plugin to analyze traffic on our website. WP Statistics stores its data on our own server and does not transmit it to any third parties. Below, we describe what information we collect through WP Statistics, why we collect it, and how it is handled. If you have questions or concerns about our analytics practices, please contact us or review the WP Statistics Data Privacy guide.
We store visitors’ IP addresses in a way that may allow them to be identifiable. Specifically:
- Collecting IP Data: Your IP address is recorded alongside your page visits, which can sometimes be used to estimate your location (country, city).
- Why We Store IPs: This helps us detect unique visits, identify possible misuse or security issues, and gather accurate traffic data.
- Data Protection: We keep IP records on our own server, secured and accessible only to authorized staff. We do not share them unless required by law.
- Privacy Considerations: Since IP addresses may be considered personal data, we take reasonable measures to protect them. You can contact us regarding removal or other data rights if you feel your IP address is personally identifying.
