(Basically, I don’t sell your personal information or spam when you sign up to my newsletter.)
Last updated October 12, 2023
This privacy notice for Fiestry (“we,” “us,” or “our”) describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services), such as when you:
- Visit our websites at https://blog.fiestry.com or https://www.fiestry.com or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice.
- Engage with us in other other related ways, including sales, marketing, or events.
Questions or concerns?
Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and chocies. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at fiestry@proton.me.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
Immediate Disclaimer to Minor Usage: Our Website is not intended for children under 18-years old. No minors under 18-years old may provide sensitive information or data to the website.. We do not knowingly collect data of any users who are known to be under the age of 18.
If you are a minor, do not scroll, comment, subscribe, or perform any other actions on this Site or through any of its features. If we are informed or learn about collected information or data belonging to a minor, we immediately delete that data and take the appropriate measures to ban the child from accessing the Site (if applicable). For those who are under the impression that we are holding information about any minors, please contact this email
What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process user information, depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we receive any information from third parties? We do not receive any information from third parties.
How do we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.
How do we keep your information safe? We have organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, and modify your information.
What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by visiting blog.fiestry.com/contact or by contacting us via email. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
1.) WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You: The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
- email addresses
- names
For the purpose of providing newsletter subscription services or allowing comments on the site.
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.
Sensitive Information: We do not process sensitive information.
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.
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.
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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information – such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the services. The information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
The Site Administrator does not sell this information to third parties. It is used to make your browsing experience safer and improve the content of the site.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with the law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users.
- To send administrative information to you.
- To enable user-to-user communications via comments.
- To request feedback.
- To protect our Services.
- To identify usage trends.
- To determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns.
- To save or protect an individual’s vital interest.
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid reason (i.e. legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information.
- Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission or consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time (i.e. delete public comments or unsubscribe from the Site newsletter).
- Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described in order to:
- Analyze how our Services are used so we can improve them to engage and retain users
- Support our marketing activities.
- Diagnose problems and/or prevent fraudulent activities.
- Understand how our users use our services so we can improve user experience.
- Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
- Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vitral interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
4. Third-Party Data Collection
Our website uses applications called plugins to enhance the usability of the Site. These third parties may collect data about the Site’s visitors without the knowledge of the administrator. The administrator does not have access to data collected by third-parties, but will provide third-party contact information at the request of the user. The administrator is not responsible for practices initiated by third-party plugins.
We do not control third-party collection or use of your data, usage, or personal information to serve advertisements. But these third parties may provide you with ways to delete or stop the collection of your data.
Contact Information
To ask questions concerning the privacy policy and best practices, contact our administrator at this email.