Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: http://www.janestruthers.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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 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

We use Contact 7 Contact form and we do not store your details automatically to a mailing list database or anything like that. If you want to hear about new books, workshops or giveaways, you’ll need to sign up for my newsletter HERE.

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.

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

I will be running Google Analytics on this website, which is no different from most other websites that you visit. I won’t be collecting individual’s data, but it will provide me with general information about the wonderful people who visit my site.

Who we share your data with

Absolutely nobody.

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.

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

Where you have sent me an email or signed up for a newsletter, be assured that Mailchimp (the newsletter service provider) as robust GDPR procedures in place. Any breach of your data via Mailchimp will be handled by them. If you send me an email, your details will end up on my personal computer. This is seen only by me and my email service also has a robust personal data protection policy in place.

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

If we become aware that there has been a breach in data protection on this website, we will notify you immediately. The only information that we will have from you is your name and email address.

What third parties we receive data from

Outside websites etc are governed by their own data protection regularions.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Nil

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

I don’t think that we have any industry disclosure requirements 🙂