Thank you for visiting Sent from the Past Postcards. This Privacy Policy outlines how the site collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information when you interact with the website, which utilizes various services, including Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Google Search Console, and WordPress. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand the practices regarding your personal information.
Information Collected
Personal Information
The site may collect personal information such as your name, email address, and any other information you voluntarily provide through contact forms or other interactive features.
Non-Personal Information
The site also automatically collects non-personal information when you visit, including your IP address, browser type, device information, and anonymous usage data. This information is collected through cookies, tags, and similar technologies.
Blog Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, are collected to help with 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.
Additionally, since roleplaying is a major project theme, please roleplay in the comments as if you are visiting the blog in the “time period” the blog post is from. Other comments can be sent to olentangyparkproject@gmail.com.
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.
Use of Information
Personal Information
Your personal information may be used to respond to your inquiries, provide the services you request, send you updates and other relevant communications, and improve our website’s functionality and user experience.
Non-Personal Information
Non-personal information is collected to analyze trends, administer the website, and gather demographic information for internal use. This information helps improve the website and tailor it to better meet visitors’ needs.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies
The website uses cookies, which are small text files stored on your device, to collect information about your browsing behavior. Cookies help improve your browsing experience and help you understand how you use the website.
If you leave a comment on the site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. They will last for one year.
If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be set 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, several cookies are set up to save your login information and 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.
Data Security
The site employs industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, please be aware that no method of data transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and absolute security cannot be guaranteed.
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 exactly 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.
Data Sharing
Third-Party Service Providers
Your personal and non-personal information may be shared with trusted third-party service providers, including but not limited to Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and Google Search Console, to help us analyze website usage, manage tags, and monitor website performance.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Legal Compliance
Your personal information may be disclosed if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., law enforcement agencies or regulatory authorities).
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so the blog can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
The personal information provided by users who register on our website (if any) is stored in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). The website administrator can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights
You have the right to access, correct, update, or delete any personal information the website holds about you. If you want to exercise any of these rights, please use the information below to contact us.
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 must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Children’s Privacy
The site does not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided the website with personal information, please contact the email address below and appropriate steps will be taken to remove that information from our systems.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
I reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting the revised Privacy Policy on our website. Your continued use of our website after posting any changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please email sentfromthepastpostcards@gmail.com.
By using the website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.