Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://connectsimply.com.  We are a blog which shares information on ways to connect with others and other random thoughts.  Most of the content is created by Heidi Caswell.  You may contact us by email:  Heidi at (@)  connectsimply.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: 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

When you contact us thru a contact form, we store your email and whatever information you submit.

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.

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

Our webhost collects analytics, and we may use other 3rd party software to collect such information.  This data includes info such as when you visited the site, how your found our site, your IP address, time and length of visit, what browser you used, etc.  This helps us with promoting the website and making the site  compatible with most visitors.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell your personal data to others.  We do use various 3rd party tools and software to run ConnectSimply.com   The following are some of the companies we use.

SiteGround.com  is our webhost.  All websites need such, it is where all the files and data for our website are stored and retrieved.  You may view their privacy policy here: SiteGround Privacy Policy.

We use Youst’s SEO plugin.  View  Youst’s Privacy Page here.

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 we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service such as CleanTalk.

Contact information

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us by email:  Heidi at ConnectSimply.com

Additional information

How we protect your data

Your data is stored in our webhost.  Any data downloaded is deleted, not stored for any long term use.  We also use Sucuri to scan our site for malware, etc.

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