This page provides information regarding privacy, collection of personal data, and use of personal data. It also includes disclosures about personal data retention, and personal data use.
Privacy Policy
This comprehensive privacy policy is current, accurate, and reflects in line with the legal requirements surrounding privacy.
Where Am I?
Chris Elle Dove, is located strictly online.
The site was founded, and is currently managed, by:
Chris Elle Dove
Morganton, NC
chrisedove@gmail.com
www.chrisdovewrites.com, http://www.ChrisElleDove.com
What Personal Data Do I Collect and Why I Collect It
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 with 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. That Gravatar’s 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 this 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 information collected in the contact forms, used to Get In Touch to comment, submit a contribution or contribution proposal, or request to join a Pinterest Group Board, are used solely for those communications. The information is not used for marketing or promotional 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 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 a 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 as if the visitor has visited that 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
This site does not collect any analytics data.
Who I Share Your Data With
I am not sharing your data with anyone.
If you sign up for an email subscription, your information is being saved into a Gmail group.
How long I Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For registered users of the site website (if any), I’m also storing the personal information provided in their user profile. All registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights 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 I hold about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where I Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Privacy-Specific Concern Contact
Please send any, and all, privacy-specific concerns to:
Chris Dove
chrisedove@gmail.com
Subject Line: Privacy-Specific Concern
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