Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://douglasdiary.co.uk. Douglas is a blogging dog who likes to keep his readers informed of his travels.

How to Contact

Douglas can be reached via the contact form here

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. If you have created an account with me, I collect the following data.

• Email address;
• Names;
• IP;
• Address;
• Newsletter: opens, clicks, opt-ins;

Consent to Collect

I collect data from users that have created accounts with me. I ask for consent during the account creation process with a checkbox. A link to this page is provided during the account creation process. The legal basis for me to collect the data is to be able to provide you with a service.

Your Data, Your Rights

• You can request a copy of your data which we will provide within 30 days;
• You can request your data to be anonymized which I will do within 30 days;
• While I will do everything I can to keep my service secure, in the event of a data breach or misuse, I will inform my users of what happened and what I have done to put it right within 30 days.

Length of Data Collection

Douglas will keep identifiable data for an undetermined amount of time or until the user asks us to anonymize and / or delete his/her data.

Who Has Access to Our Data?

Data at Douglas’ Diary is not shared or sold with any third party. Douglas’ Diary has access to users data for the purpose of providing services. No personally identifiable data is stored on staff or contractor computers on a permanent basis. Contractors are requested to delete this data at the end of their mission.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.