Who we are
Our website address is: http://colinremillard.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.
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
If you use our contact forms, we assume you wish to be contacted. Any details entered in a contact form may be transmitted to our email service unencrypted, do please do not include any sensitive info, such as passwords, banking info, or personal details you do not wish to be transmitted unencrypted.
If you are opting-in to our website to receive complimentary or promotional materials, we may use your information to contact you with additional info or offers of services. If you wish to stop receiving such contact, simply reply to our emails with “unsubscribe” in the message subject.
NOTE: We do not share, sell or rent our contact lists with ANYONE!
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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
Who we share your data with
Information entered into our website, such as posts, comments, images, etc. become part of our website. Do not post any info you do not wish to be public. Search engines and other services may crawl, index or cache our website content and it is then beyond our control. We also use some external analytics services to help improve our website, such as browser environment information. Contact info may be stored with a third-party service in order to assist with more accurate and reliable delivery of messages. Emails may be stored on third-party servers or personal computers if downloaded by the recipient.
We use Google’s reCaptcha service to reduce attempts by automated scripts to access our website and improve overall performance.
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.
We use Google’s reCaptcha service to reduce attempts by automated scripts to access our website and improve overall performance.
Your contact information
Contact info may be stored with a third-party service in order to assist with more accurate and reliable delivery of messages. Emails containing contact info may be stored on third-party servers or personal computers if downloaded by the recipient. You may request to have your contact info removed by sending a message to us, or also stop receiving any marketing emails from us by replying with “unsubscribe” in the subject.
Additional information
How we protect your data
What data breach procedures we have in place
If we become aware of a data breach which compromises data which we feel represents a risk to sensitive information, we will inform you by email. However, we do not screen or index general information to classify it as sensitive. We prefer that users DO NOT post sensitive information, and are therefore not responsible for it.
What third parties we receive data from
We may occasionally place advertisements from external services on our website. We do not always have control which ads may be served or why. If you have a concern about ad content, please contact us. We may also receive content-scoring or user-authentication checks from third-parties when content is submitted, for purposes of security.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
There may be automated content-screening rules which affect whether or not user content is posted or emails sent through contact forms. There is no appeals process, but we may address your concerns with specific decisions if you contact us.
We use Google’s reCaptcha service to reduce attempts by automated scripts to access our website and improve overall performance.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
Do not post any content of which you are not the owner or for which you do not have rights to share. This includes certain images, text, sound recordings, videos and more. Simply, if you did not create it, you should probably not share it. If we receive a complaint about copyright infringement, questionable or non-compliant content, we will immediately remove it and provide notice to whomever posted it why it has been removed. While you may have certain rights under DMCA to appeal a takedown request, we are not obligated to host a user’s content and may remove or refuse to post any content for any reason at any time.