At Waltann Merchandising, we have strict privacy policy for safeguarding your privacy is of paramount importance to us. Below, we outline the details of our privacy practices to ensure transparency and clarity regarding the collection, usage, and protection of your personal information when interacting with our website.
Collection of Information:
When visitors engage with our website, we collect various types of information to enhance user experience and improve our services:
- Comments: When leaving comments on our site, we collect data provided in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to facilitate spam detection. Additionally, an anonymized string generated from your email address may be utilized by the Gravatar service, enabling profile picture display alongside your comment.
- Media: Uploading images to our website should avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to prevent extraction of location details by website visitors.
- Cookies: By leaving a comment, users may opt-in to saving their name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies remain valid for one year. Temporary cookies are set when visiting our login page to determine cookie acceptance, while login cookies are established for two days, and screen options cookies for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” retains login information for two weeks. Article editing or publication generates an additional cookie containing no personal data, expiring after one day.
- Embedded Content: Embedded content from other websites behaves similarly to content visited directly on those sites, potentially collecting user data, using cookies, and tracking interactions, particularly if users have accounts and are logged in to those websites.
Data Sharing:
When requesting a password reset, your IP address is included in the reset email.
Data Retention:
Comments and associated metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic approval of follow-up comments instead of queuing for moderation. User registration entails storing personal information in user profiles, accessible for viewing, editing, or deletion by users, except username changes. Website administrators also possess access to and may edit this information.
User Rights:
Users with accounts on our site or who have left comments may request an exported file containing personal data held by us or request erasure of personal data we hold, excluding data necessitated for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Data Transmission:
Visitor comments may undergo automated spam detection checks.
We are committed to maintaining the highest standards of privacy protection and continually review and update our policies to ensure compliance with evolving regulations and best practices. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy practices, please don’t hesitate to contact us at [Insert Contact Information Here]. Thank you for entrusting Waltann Merchandising with your privacy.