PRIVACY POLICY
Who we are
Our website address is: https://feeoshea.com.
Fee O’Shea is the owner and sole administrator of this website. The base is New Zealand.
The main purpose of this website is as a blog, however, we also promote books and show advertisements through Google Adsense.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Free book and subscription.
By signing up for the free book we receive your email address. At time of entering your email you are able to download the book immediately, then you will be sent a confirming letter asking if you wish to continue to subscribe to the newletter. If you choose not to subscribe just delete the letter. If you choose to continue click the ‘confirm subscription’ button.
You are able to opt out of this newsletter at any time either via the received newsletter or contacting us directly.
Please note that the newsletter is published at random times.
We use GetResponse for our email collection site. Their terms, including their privacy, is here:
https://www.getresponse.com/legal
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 anonymised 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.
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
The contact form on this website captures your name and email address only. It is used as a means of initial contact between the two of us. Please note that the contact form submissions are kept only for the duration of the conversation between us and only for customer service purposes. We do not use the information submitted through this contact form for marketing purposes nor is it given to another party.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google analytics and the user and event data retention is for a period of 14 months. This data is for our own purposes and simply to see where the majority of traffic is coming from. It is anonymous analytics data. Data collection for Advertising Features has been turned off.
Who we share your data with
We do not share your data with any third party.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Our hosting company’s privacy policy can be found: https://www.hostgator.com/privacy
Your contact information
As stated above your contact information is used as a means of initial contact between the two of us. If you have any privacy-specific concerns please contact us through our contact page: https://feeoshea.com/contact
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