1. introduction
Welcome to https://roberthindle.com. I am committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact me at robert@roberthindle.com
2. Information We Collect
We collect personal information that you provide to us and data that is collected automatically.
2.1 Personal Information Provided by You
- Name
- Email address
- Contact details
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 anonymised 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.
2.2 Information Collected Automatically
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Pages you view on our website
- The date and time of your visit
We use Google Analytics and Hotjar to collect and analyze this information to improve our website and services.
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 1 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 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.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect or receive:
3.1 To Provide and Improve Our Services
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Improve user experience
- Develop new products, services, and features
3.2 For Marketing and Communication
- Send you promotional messages and content
4. Legal Bases for Processing Your Information
We process your personal information under the following legal bases:
4.1 Consent We may process your personal information if you have given us specific consent to use your personal data for a specific purpose.
4.2 Legitimate Interests We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
4.3 Compliance with Legal Obligations We may process your personal information to comply with our legal obligations.
5. Sharing Your Information
We do not share your personal data with third parties without your consent, except in the following cases:
- Compliance with laws and regulations
- Service providers who perform services on our behalf
- If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
- Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
6. Use of Google Analytics and Hotjar
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information about website use via cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (eg how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.
For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site .Who we share your data with
7. How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information 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.
8. 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 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.