Privacy Policy

Who We Are

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

  • We collect information from you when you register on our site or subscribe to our newsletter.
  • When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: e-mail address or user name.

Any of the Information We Collect From You May Be Used in One of the Following Ways

  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
  • To send periodic emails
  • The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
  • To send proof of payments and tax invoices.

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

  • If you use our Contact or Hire Me forms we collect the data shown in the name, email address and phone contact details. We also collect the IP of the person submitting the form.

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.
  • 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

  • We measure visitor volume, geographic location, site browsing behavior and return visits on tools such as Google Analytics and Google Adsense.

Who We Share Your Data With

  • Google Adsense: if you browse any page that contains advertisements.
  • Photodeck: whom we rely upon for our e-commerce platform and whom you will provide data to when purchasing any commercial product from this web site.
  • We do not store any credit card data on this web site. It is provided to 3rd parties such as Pay Pal and Stripe who collect and store that data on their own platforms.
  • Your email information will be shared with partner sites of Southern Cross Web Enterprises for marketing purposes.

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 an automated spam detection service.

Your Contact Information

  • Is stored in our database.

How We Protect Your Data

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information:

  • We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
  • Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

What Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place

  • We use the products and services of Defiant Inc who are recognized as leaders in their respective fields of cyber security.

What Automated Decision Making And/or Profiling We Do With User Data

  • For subscribers to our newsletters, we use automated plugins to randomly select and send free images to subscribers.

Your Consent

  • By using our site, you consent to our Privacy Policy

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

  • If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.

Contacting Us

  • If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us by using the Contact page.

This policy was last modified on 5 July 2020.