Who we are
This privacy policy is for https://playingwithrain.com and only for this site.
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.
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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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
Contact form submissions are kept only for customer service purposes and the information submitted through them will not be used for marketing purposes.
The contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form. This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.
Cookies
This website may use cookies to track information about sales, user behavior, for marketing and affiliate services and ads.
Users
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.
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.
Newsletters
You may voluntarily submit your email address and name to subscribe to our email. This information will be used to send you email updates, new inventory and/or tips and tricks. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties. You may opt out at anytime and ask for your information to be deleted. Please see ConverKit’s Privacy Policy for more information.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to help provide a better user experience, and to understand the traffic on our website. Google Analytics collects data such as your behavior on our website, the type of device you use, your IP address, and referring websites. No personal information is collected. For more information, visit Google Analytics Privacy Policy.
Who we share your data with
Your information will not be sold to any third parties. If you purchase from us, we may use your information with purchasing software and delivery companies, for the sole purpose of purchasing and getting your item(s) to you.
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
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.
Retargeting Ads
This website may use retargeting ads with Facebook Pixel to market on facebook. They use cookies to serve ads based on past activity on the website. You can opt out of this here.
Affiliate Promotion
This website uses affiliate programs to link to products. This uses cookies to track sales for the purpose of commission. You will not be charged any extra for using or clicking the links, and personal information about sales are not recorded. Information on clicked links, products that were purchased and on what day they were purchased may be collected.
You may turn off your cookies if you do not wish to have this information collected.
Children
This website does not knowingly collect any information about children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that we have personally identifiable information of anyone under the age of 18, please contact us at sillyscientist@yahoo.com to get it removed.
Sensitive Personal Information
Do not share sensitive personal information on this website such as your social security number, health information, political beliefs, religious beliefs, ethnicity, etc. If shared on this website, it will be subject to this privacy policy.
At any time, please contact us at sillyscientist@yahoo.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: May 18, 2020