Who we are
The following definitions should help you understand this policy. When we say “we,” “us,” and “our,” we are referring to Perkins Dry Goods, a US based company. Our website address is https://www.perkinsdrygoods-blog.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. 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 a visitor uses the contact form on the site it e-mails the site owner with the contents of the form along with contact details for a reply. These details are not stored within the site, and the e-mail is deleted within a year if no further follow-up has been requested. Information submitted via the contact form is never used for marketing 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.
You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
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
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics is in accordance with their privacy policies. Please see the Google Analytics Privacy Policy for more details. You can prevent Google’s collection and processing of data by using the Google Ads Settings page or downloading and installing their browser plug-in. For more details please see the download page for the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Who we share your data with
We take your privacy extremely seriously and we will never share your data with any third parties with the exception of:
- Should you sign up to our newsletter, your name and e-mail address will be stored within the site owner’s account at Mail Chimp. Please see the Mail Chimp Privacy Policy for more details.
- When you buy from our web store you will be redirected to PayPal for payment purposes. This means that we have no access to any of your financial data, all card details and transactions are handled by PayPal only. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
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 – note that your address is required for purchases due to VAT requirements for digital downloads within the EU. All users can see, edit, or delete their own personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
User accounts which have been inactive for 7 years or more will be deleted.
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. We will respond to your request within 1 month if not sooner.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service called Akismet.
Should you make a purchase from this site, data will be passed to PayPal for the purposes of the financial transaction only. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Additional information
How we protect your data
This site is is secured with an SSL certificate and protected by Wordfence security which is constantly updated in order to try and prevent attacks from external users. The site owner has the only account with permissions to see your data and it is never shared with any third parties. Our account security requires that each account must have a password associated with it. Users will have 2 failed attempts to login to their account, after which their IP address will be locked out for 2 months.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If a security breach occurs on our system that materially affects you, for example that the site is hacked, then we will notify you as soon as possible and later report the action we took in response.
What third parties we receive data from
If you choose to purchase from this site, we will receive confirmation of a successful transaction from PayPal, however we will not receive any financial details from them.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We do not carry out any automated processing on user data with the exception of blog comments passing through an automated spam detection service (Akismet).
Contact us
For privacy-specific concerns, please email inquiries@perkinsdrygoods-blog.com
Updated May 25, 2018
