That Vegan Nephew – Privacy Policy
That Vegan Nephew, found at http://ThatVeganNephew.com/ (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”)
We appreciate your right to anonymity and privacy on this website, and we do the best we can to protect your information. The following articles are an explanation of how this website uses any personally identifiable information that may be collected and why.
This privacy policy applies specifically to ThatVeganNephew.com, and represents no other site.
What personal data is collected and why?
Information voluntarily submitted
Upon commenting or subscribing to the newsletter/mailing list, you may be required to submit voluntarily your name and email address, as well as a username and password. While the username is collected by the website, your personal password will still be encrypted and not visible under any of this website’s records – see “cookies” below for more information about this.
Information we collect from others
We may receive information about you from other sources, like social medial. You may link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile. If you choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and/or Google accounts to your user profile, we will receive your name, email address and profile picture associated with that account.
Automatically-Collected information
We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
How The Information On This Website Is Used
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and upkeep the Website.
- To create an account for you, identify you as a user of this Website, and customize the Website for your account personally.
- To send you promotional information, including newsletters and outreach emails. Email promotions will usually provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings.
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts.
- To respond to your comments or questions about this site or about your account.
- To provide you with user support, if you should need help with the interface of this site and/or the access to your account.
- To track and measure and collection information to apply to advertising on the Website.
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Analytics
Who is your data shared with?
Data maybe be shared with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.
Additionally, this Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
How long we retain the data you provide?
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.
The 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 your personal data, including the data you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete any personal data we hold about you – this is your right.
The exception: we cannot delete any data that 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.
Regarding Sensitive Personal Information
Please do not submit sensitive personal information to this Website.
This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.