This privacy policy is for https://sitesavvy.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.

Contact forms

If you fill out one of our contact or other forms, we will collect and store all information that you provide so that we have a record of communication, much the same as an email inbox. We typically require name, email, and phone at a minimum so that we can contact you to respond.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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

We track user activity using Google Analytics in order to determine the effectiveness of this site for our organization, and to determine how we can optimize the site to provide a better experience for our users. Data collected for analytics is aggregated and used such that it cannot reasonably be used to personally identify individuals.

Who we share your data with

We do not share data collected through this site with third parties.

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 we send your data

Spam Detectors

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

Credit Card Information

If you are a customer you may use our online payment forms to settle invoices or signup for subscriptions. We do not store credit card information on our servers. All credit information is captured directly by Stripe and stored on their PCI compliant servers. Stripe’s Privacy Policy and Terms can be found here: https://stripe.com/us/privacy.

Security Measures

This site is secured using SSL to ensure that connections to our site are encrypted. In the event this site is hacked, we have procedures in place to rapidly re-secure the site and block bad actors.