Effective as of 1/7/2020
Who we are
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, disclosed and shared when you visit, subscribe, or make a purchase from A Mermaids Compass owned and operated by Alli Serencko. Our website address is: http:amermaidscompass.com and you can contact the owner(s) via direct message, the blog on our site, or by email at alli@amermaindscompass.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. Before comments are approved they are screened for language such as profanity, threatening language, and/or demeaning or sexually harassing language. Screening and assessment of what qualifies as stated above will be the sole responsibility of the owner, creative director and editor of A Mermaids Compass: Alli.
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 information in one or any of our contact forms here at A Mermaids Compass, we will utilize it for marketing purposes. We will market to you our products and/or services, as well as other third party products and/or services we are affiliated with, support or are financially supported by.
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
Who we share your data with
Here at A Mermaids Compass we utilize Google Analytics to measure data, engagement, etc… You can find the Google Analytics Privacy Policy here: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ Beyond our Privacy Policy, the policy outlined in the link above applies to your interaction with every aspect of our brand, site, blog, associates and affiliates.
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 and/or subscribe 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, as well as screened for language such as profanity, threatening language, demeaning or sexually harassing language. Screening and assessment of what qualifies as stated above will be the sole responsibility of the owner, creative director and editor of A Mermaids Compass: Alli.
Additional information
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our site, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted here and are subject to the current “effective date” posted on this page.