Who we are
Our website address is: http://effectivesmart.com
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site we collect data displayed in the comment form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be given to the Gravatar service to see if you use it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After agreeing to your comment, your profile picture can be seen publicly in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to a website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Website visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you can participate to save your name, email address and website in a cookie. This is for your convenience so that you don’t need to fill in information again when leaving other comments. This cookie will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you enter, we will also set up a number of cookies to store your login information and your screen display options. Incoming cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for one year. If you choose “Remember Me”, your login will last for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
If you edit or publish an article, additional cookies will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not include personal data and only shows the post ID of the article you just edited. Validity period after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site can include embedded content (e.g. Videos, images, articles, etc.). Content embedded from other websites behaves exactly as if a visitor had visited another website.
This website can collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions with embedded content, including tracking your interactions with embedded content if you have an account and log in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that we can recognize and approve the follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide on their user profiles. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (unless they cannot change their username). Web site administrators can also view and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left a comment, you can request to receive files that are exported from the personal data we have about you, including any data that you provide to us. You can also request that we delete any personal data we have about you. This does not include data that we must keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments can be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Information Regarding Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, we are Data Controllers of your personal information.
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information, as described in this Privacy Policy, depends on the information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. We can process your personal information because:
- We need to contract with you, like when you make a policy with us
- You have given us permission to do so
- Processing is for our legitimate interests and is not overwritten by your rights
- For payment processing purposes
- To obey the law
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or delete the personal information we hold about you
- Repair right
- The right to refuse
- Right of restrictions
- Data portability rights
- The right to withdraw approval
Please note that we can ask you to verify your identity before responding to the request.
You have the right to complain to the Data Protection Authority about the collection and use of your personal information by us. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Service Providers
We employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Service Providers”), to provide our Website on our behalf, to perform services related to the Website or to assist us in analyzing how our Website is used. These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obliged not to disclose or use them for any other purpose.
Payments processors
We provide paid products and / or services on our Website. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is given directly to our third party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. This payment processor complies with the standards established by PCI-DSS which are managed by the PCI Security Standards Board.
Contacting Us
If you have questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us.