Last updated and effective as of October 14, 2018
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Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.shanesteiner.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 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
When submitting through the contact form, we collect all inputed information including but
not limited to first name, last name, subject, email address, and message. Contact form submissions are
retained indefinitely for customer service 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 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 tracing your interaction
with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
In order to keep our website services relevant, easy to use and up-to-date, we use web analytics services
to help us understand how people use the site.
Cookies allow web analytics services to recognise your browser or device and, for example,
identify whether you have visited our website before, what you have previously viewed or clicked on, and
how you found us. The information is anonymous and only used for statistical purposes, and it helps us
to analyse patterns of user activity and to develop a better user experience.
Cache
This site may utilize caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user
experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this
site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to
obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site
administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.
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
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of October 14, 2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to
any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on
this page.
We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy
Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy
Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide
and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through
the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Our contact information
Please visit our contact page to reach out with any
questions regarding this notice or any general inquires.