Here at The Purpose Blog, we care about our visitors’ rights to privacy. This document explains the types of information collected and recorded by ThePurposeBlog.com and how we use it.
Summary
Anonymous visitor information is recorded through log files and cookies. These are used by ThePurposeBlog.com for the purpose of generating blog statistics, understanding trends and user behavior, improving customer experience, and/or tracking affiliate sales. This information is not associated with any personal data.
Personally identifiable information (such as name, email address, contact number, age, etc) are collected only when you voluntarily provide them. We collect personal data when you subscribe to our newsletter, sign up for an e-course, download content, purchase a product, leave a comment, or contact us through this contact form.
These personal data are never shared nor sold.
Personal data we collect and why collect them:
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
By default, WordPress does not include a contact form. If you use a contact form plugin, use this subsection to note what personal data is captured when someone submits a contact form, and how long you keep it. For example, you may note that you keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but you do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
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.
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.
Affiliate partners
Our affiliate partners may use cookies on our site and have their own technology to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns, track affiliate sales, and personalise customer experience. We have no access to or control over these cookies. Some of our affiliate partners are the following:
- Dreamhost
- 17th Avenue
- All other affiliate partnerships are fully disclosed where it’s needed.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. To know more, visit: www.allaboutcookies.org.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.
Update
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: Wednesday, April 10th, 2023.
Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.