The website address is: http://simplylocal.life.

What personal data is collected and why?

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, the data shown in the comments form is collected, 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 enter your name and email address in a contact or subscription form, it is used to communicate with you based on your request: answering a query and/or sending updates directly from www.simplylocal.life .

Cookies

If you leave a comment on this 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, a temporary cookie will be set 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, several cookies will be set up 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

Google Analytics and JetPack plugins are used to track website traffic and statistics. You may learn more about Google Analytics’ privacy policy here, and JetPack’s privacy policy here.

Who your data is shared with

Other third party providers with whom the site shares its data, and their respective privacy policies include: Mailchimp Forms by Optin Cat and Share Buttons by AddThis

How long your data is retained

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so any follow-up comments can be recognized and approved automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

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 held about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that any personal data held about you be erased. This does not include any data obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

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

Your contact information

If you have any concerns regarding your privacy policy, please contact Jhunelle at [email protected].

Additional information

How your data is protected

In order to protect user data, user registration has been restricted to the back end of the website, with the exception of the site administrator. Other methods such as log-in reports, security alerts, anti-spam, and two factor authentication are also implemented.

What data breach procedures are in place

In the case of data breaches internal security systems, contact mechanisms, and reporting are in place.

What third parties data is received from

No data is collected from third parties. All user data is collected either by personal exchange between the user and administrator, or by user subscription by free will.