Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.ellenfaye.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.
Online forms
If you choose to contact us with our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and message. This information is emailed to us and retained in our database.
If you subscribe to our weekly tip / blog posts, your email address is collected by mailchimp.com, and optionally your name. Their privacy policy is available here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. You can unsubscribe to be removed from the MailChimp database by clicking the unsubscribe link in any e-newsletter, or emailing us at ellen@ellenfaye.com with your request to be removed.
Cookies
Cookies may be used on this website to give you the best browsing experience possible. A cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server. The browser stores the message in a text file. The message is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
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.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics automatically collects non-personally-identifying data for all visitors to the site. We do not share this information with anyone. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. The specific visitor location cannot be traced because we use the Google Analytics “anonymize IP” setting which sets the last digits of the IP address to 0, therefore anonymizing the end-user before the processing and storage begins.
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.
If you contact us by submitting our contact form, your name, email address, and message are retained indefinitely. You can request that we delete your information by emailing ellen@ellenfaye.com.
Data Sharing
We do not share your data with any third parties.
Third parties we receive data from
We receive data from the third party listed in the “Personal Data We Collect” section – mailchimp.com
Data security
We have a real-time security monitoring plug-in in our WordPress installation.
Contact information
If you have any questions about our practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at ellen@ellenfaye.com.