Who I am
My website address is: https://myfrontporch.org.
My Front Porch is very committed to the privacy of my visitors. This privacy statement has been created in order to establish and explain my policy controlling the practices involving gathering and disseminating information. Please note that this privacy statement applies only to information collected through this website, https://myfrontporch.org, and not to information collected offline, or to information you may provide to any third-party sites to which https://myfrontporch.org may be linked.
What personal data is collected and why it is collected
Comments
When visitors leave comments on this site, the data shown in the comments form is collected, as 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 form
You may contact me using the contact form. The form requires you to give a name and email address along with your message. This information allows me to be able to respond to you. It also helps me to block spam email. I do not use the information submitted through the contact form for marketing purposes.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on my 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 login to this site, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you login, several cookies will be set up 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, et cetera). 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.
Analytics
My Front Porch may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. My Front Porch may display this information publicly, or provide it to others. However, My Front Porch does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this policy.
Who your data is shared with
I do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third parties who assist me in operating my website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. I may also release your information to comply with the law, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of others. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
How long your data is retained
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so any follow-up comments can be recognized and approved automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on this website (if any), the personal information they provide is stored 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. You can also request that any personal data being held about you be erased. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Site data, including your personally identifiable information, may be transferred to trusted third parties who assist me in operating my website and servicing my visitors. These third parties include my web hosting company and website backup services.
GDPR AND OUR PLUGINS
All plugins and add-ons on this site are compatible with GDPR. Below are common questions related to GDPR.
Do your plugins track any data?
I do not track any user data via any plugins. But if a plugin depends on any third party service, they might track user data. This can happen in the following two ways:
1. Embedded Widgets
Some of the plugins on this site may have features to integrate embedded widgets as is, from third party services (such as Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Twitter (X) official buttons).
2. Third-party APIs/Connections
These plugins send requests to third party APIs via website-visitor’s web browser to fetch information (such as social shares, social comment count). This request made by the web browser may include an IP address, which can then be seen by the third-party that it’s being requested from. This API request doesn’t include any personal data of the website user other than the IP address.
Where is the data collected by your plugins stored?
The plugins on this site run absolutely on our website and store the data in the database of my website. I do not share any data fetched by any plugins with any third party.
Do your plugins load any external scripts?
As mentioned before, the plugins run absolutely from my website and hence load the scripts to/from my website with the exception of third-party embedded widgets (such as Twitter (X) official button, Facebook Like/Recommend official button, Facebook Comments) which require the plugin to load scripts from the servers of the relevant service.
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to this privacy policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
If it is decided to change this privacy policy, these changes will be posted on this page.
This policy was last modified on 08 March 2024.
Contacting Me
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact me by clicking HERE.