Who we are
This website, at address https://catemarshall.com, is used to provide information and commentary relating to website design, website use, and website-related technology and news. It also may be used for experimentation with website design techniques and technology.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
You may view this website without providing any personal data. When you view this website, our hosting service provider records your IP address and browser user agent. This is done to help detect and prevent malicious attacks on the website or hosting server. It is also done to create anonymous statistics on website traffic.
If you are in a country subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) , please do not leave comments or otherwise provide any form of personal data.
If you choose to leave comments on this website, data will be collected from you as described below.
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, if you are using the Gravatar service, 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 forms
When visitors use our Contact form, we collect the data shown in that form. In addition, we collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Any personal data provided via the Contact form will be used only for the purposes of responding as may be appropriate to any messages conveyed via the Contact form. Once that purpose has been satisfied, the personal data will be deleted.
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.
Analytics
As described above, our hosting service provider records your IP address and browser user agent each time you view a page on this website. This information may be used to provide analytics that will help us improve the website design and user experience.
Who we share your data with
We do not directly share your data. However, the traffic statistics collected by our hosting provider may be used by them to prevent malicious activities and understand data traffic.
If you are a registered site member with login capability and you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained until the comment can be reviewed by a moderator. If your comment is not approved, it and its metadata will be deleted immediately following review. If your comment is approved and published, the comment and its metadata will be retained indefinitely This is so we can have the option of recognizing and approving follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Automatic approval of comments is not guaranteed. In general, comments will be moderated and will be made public at the discretion of the site managers.
For users who are registered members of our website, 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.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Our contact information
If you have privacy concerns relating to this website, please use our Contact page to send a message. Since this is a non-commercial website used for informational and educational purposes, we do not provide any other methods for contact. If you are a registered member of the website or have left a comment that has been published on the website, we will respond promptly to messages left via our Contact form to convey privacy concerns. We reserve the right to delete without response, at our discretion, all data provided via the Contact form for any other purpose.
Additional information
This privacy policy was last updated on February 11, 2021.
How we protect your data
We collect and store only such minimal data as is needed to provide an efficient service and to protect the security of this website.
Such data as we do collect and store is maintained in a password-protected website hosting account or (in the case of the Contact form) in a password-protected Google Workspace account. The providers of these services use industry-standard methods to protect the security of all the data in our accounts, including your data.
In addition, some of the data we collect may be stored in encrypted form by a commercial backup service. This allows the website to be restored from backup, should that be required. Data stored in this way is subject to the same retention policies as data kept in our website hosting account.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If we become aware that our website or its hosting server has been breached, we will shut down the website as quickly as possible until security can be restored. If a data breach has occurred, we will post a notice of that on the website.
What third parties we receive data from
If our website hosting provider or a spam detection service see evidence of suspicious activity from an IP address, we may be notified of that.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
If our website hosting provider or a spam detection service see evidence of suspicious activity from an IP address, that IP address may be blocked from having further access either on a temporary or permanent basis.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
This is an educational website provided by volunteer efforts. As far as we know, we are not subject to any industry regulatory requirements. If that should change, we may respond by removing this website.