We respect and maintain personal privacy and personal information protection rights. We know the importance of protecting your personal information and want to make every customer experience safe and secure. To achieve this goal, we have developed this policy to explain our practices in collecting, using and disclosing your personal information. We have appointed a Privacy Officer who is responsible for our compliance with this policy. See below for information on how to contact the Privacy Officer.
personal information
For purposes of this policy, “personal information” means information about an identifiable individual, including, for example, an individual’s name, home address, telephone number, social security number, gender, income, and family status. Personal information does not include information by which an individual can be contacted at the place of business, such as an employee’s name, title or title, business phone number or business address. We will only collect, use or disclose personal information in accordance with this policy or the laws applicable to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information (“Applicable Privacy Laws”).
non-personal information
On the other hand, “non-personal information” refers to any type of information other than personal information outside the scope of this policy. For example, non-personal information would include business information, or information that enables an individual to be contacted at a business location, such as an employee’s name, title or title, business phone number, or business address. Non-personal information also includes anonymous or non-identifiable information, such as web browsing information (such as the domain used to access the site, or the type and version of the device, browser, or operating system used to access the service), or aggregated information based on anonymous data (e.g. number of visitors, pages visited by users, average time spent on various parts of the site or services). We collect, use or disclose Non-Personal Information in accordance with our normal business practices, but always in compliance with any applicable laws. However, this policy only covers our collection, use and disclosure of personal information.
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
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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Information Obtained from Third Parties
If you provide us with personal information about others, or if others provide us with your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for providing it to us and in accordance with this Policy and the policy under which it was collected. For example, we may collect general information from your employer, such as the number of expected attendees for a company wellness seminar.
