Privacy Policy

Who we are

Your privacy is very important to us. At Lynne Danley, Wordsmith we have a few fundamental principles we follow:

  1. We don’t ask you for personal information unless we really need it. We will never ask you for things like your gender, age or income level for no apparent reason.
  2. We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our services, or protect our rights.
  3. We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the ongoing operation of our site.

It is Lynne Danley, Wordsmith’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Our website address is: http://box5787/cgi/addon_GT.cgi?s=GT::WP::Install::EIG+%28lynnedan%29+-+10.24.48.84+[Wordpress%3b+/var/hp/common/lib/Wordpress.pm%3b+534%3b+Hosting::gap_call].

Website Visitors

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.

Like most websites, Lynne Danley, Wordsmith collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting this data is to better understand how our visitors use our website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate; e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of our website.

Lynne Danley, Wordsmith also collects potentially personally-identifying information, like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. We only disclose logged in uder and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that we use and disclose personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

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.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Lynne Danley, Wordsmith choose to interact with us in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a user name and email address. For those who wish to receive updates from us via email, we collect their email addresses. In each case, we collect such information only as necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. We do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Lynne Danley, Wordsmith may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, we may monitor the most popular pages on our site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Lynne Danley, Wordsmith may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Lynne Danley, Wordsmith does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Lynne Danley, Wordsmith discloses potentially-personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Lynne Danley, Wordsmith’s behalf or to provide services available at Lynne Danley, Wordsmith’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Lynne Danley, Wordsmith’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Lynne Danley, Wordsmith will not rent or sell potentially-personally-identifying information and personally-identifying-information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Lynne Danley, Wordsmith discloses potentially-personally-identifying information and personally-identifying-information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Lynne Danley, Wordsmith believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Lynne Danley, Wordsmith, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of the Lynne Danley, Wordsmith website and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Lynne Danley, Wordsmith and our products and services. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example, via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Lynne Danley, Wordsmith takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially-personally-identifying-information and personally-identifying-information.

Media

Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. That is because visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Lynne Danley, Wordsmith uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences.

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.

Lynne Danley, Wordsmith visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Lynne Danley, Wordsmith website, with the drawback that certain features of the Lynne Danley, Wordsmith website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

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.

Spam

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Password Reset

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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 your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through Akismet, an automated spam detection service.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Lynne Danley, Wordsmith may change its Privacy Policy from time to time and in Lynne Danley, Wordsmith’s sole discretion. Lynne Danley, Wordsmith encourages visitors to check this page from time to time for any changes to this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any changes to its Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.