Effective date: July 15, 2019
Vicariously Here takes your privacy seriously. This privacy policy explains how your personal data is collected and used on our website: https://www.vicariouslyhere.com.
How and why is data collected?
All web servers track basic information about their visitors. This includes, but is not limited to IP addresses, browser details, and referring pages. None of this information can personally identify specific visitors to this site.
Vicariously Here collects data for two main purposes:
- Email addresses via opt-in forms to send subscribers updates and notify subscribers of new posts. We do not ask for your name or any additional information.
- Google analytic data to track visits to our website and know how well our website is performing in terms of number of visitors and which posts are being read in order to improve the performance of our website.
*We are doing our best to be GDPR compliant and observe all GDPR rights afforded to our EU readers. If you are from the EU, your continued use of this site acts as your acceptance of our Privacy Policy and your consent to data collection as described in our Privacy Policy. If you do not consent, do not use our website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, the following data is collected to help detect and eliminate spam: data shown in the comments form, visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string.
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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact forms used to collect information
This site uses a MailerLite pop-up form, allowing users to subscribe to our email list. For more information on MailerLite’s privacy policy, please visit MailerLite’s privacy policy page.
This site also uses the Jetpack plugin for comments and email subscriptions via WordPress. For more information on Jetpack’s privacy policy, please visit Jetpack’s Privacy Center.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies (small pieces of information that are stored on your computer, which you can clear via your settings). 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.
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.
Third-Party Use of Personal Information
We will never sell your information.
Google Analytics
Vicariously Here uses Google Analytics to track statistics regarding our audience and traffic. No personally identifiable information is transferred from Vicariously Here to Google Analytics. For more information on Google’s Analytics privacy policies, please visit Google’s privacy policy page.
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.
Your rights
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.
Rights related to your personal information
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at admin@vicariouslyhere.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to admin@vicariouslyhere.com.
Amend – You may contact us at admin@vicariouslyhere.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to admin@vicariouslyhere.com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or when required by law.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Security
This sites utilizes the Cloudflare Content Delivery Network to optimize security, performance, and reliability. Their Privacy Policy can be found here.
Acceptance of terms
By using this website, you are hereby accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you are not in agreement with our terms and conditions, you are under no obligation to use our site. However, your continued use of our site stipulates your agreement and acceptance of said Privacy Policy.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at admin@vicariouslyhere.com.