Who we are
My Gluten Free PhD is henceforth referred to as the “Website” in this privacy policy.
Your privacy is important to us. Please review this privacy policy carefully.
This privacy policy describes the policies and procedures of the Website (“we”, “our” or “us”) on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information on the Website and the products, services, features, content, or applications we offer. When you use the services provided on the Website, you are consenting to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage, disclosure, and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Contact forms
We will ask for your first name and email address in contact forms in order to respond to any inquiries that you may have about the Website, the content, or other concerns.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the Website we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitor comments may be checked through the automated spam detection service, Akismet. Please see their privacy policy.
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. 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 any 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 Website, 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 Website, 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this Website 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.
We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of Third-Party Services, and you are responsible for reading and understanding those Third-Party Services’ privacy policies. This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Website in the use of the available services.
Publicly Visible Information
If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible on the Website.
Sensitive and Personally Identifiable Information
Do not submit any sensitive information about yourself to the Website that could be used to identify or locate you.
This includes but is not limited to: Mailing address, phone number, precise location (such as GPS coordinates), photos containing EXIF location data, social security number, age, usernames on other sites, passwords on other sites, employer, political views, race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information or criminal background.
Information submitted by children
This Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Who we share your data with
Google Analytics
This Website uses Google Analytics to monitor traffic and optimize the content on this Website to meet future visitors needs.
Refer to Google’s privacy policy for more information. Google also outlines their approach to safeguarding your data.
When you visit the Website, your web browser can automatically send certain information to Google. This includes:
- The URL you are visiting
- Your IP address
- First-party cookies
- Advertising Identifiers
Google may also set cookies on your browser or read those cookies that are already there.
More information about each class of information is provided in Google’s discussion on Safeguarding your Data under the subheading “Data Collected by Google Analytics” as of September 22, 2020.
Opting Out of Google Analytics
If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics, you may currently do so using Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Data submitted to the Website by You
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, we also store the personal information that 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 Website, 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. It also does not include the non-personally identifiable information collected for optimization purposes as discussed previously in the section regarding Google Analytics.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through the automated spam detection service, Akismet. Please see their privacy policy.
What Safety Measures are in place
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized
disclosures of personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee that personally identifiable information in our possession will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of user information at any time.
We otherwise store all of our information, including your IP address information, using industry-standard techniques. We do not guarantee or warrant that such techniques will prevent unauthorized access to information about you that we store, Personal Information or otherwise.
Policy last updated September 22, 2020