Who we are
At Free Spirit English we care about your privacy. We’ve prepared this page to provide you with information on our privacy policy. If you would like more information about our policy, you can contact us here.
In this policy, “we, “us” and “our” refer to Free Spirit English. Our website address is https://jessemblack.wpengine.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We use Google Analytics for the purpose of monitoring and improving our website and services. When you use our site, we process data that may include your IP address, browser information, operating system, number and type of page views, length of visit, frequency of visits, and usage patterns.
If you submit a message using a contact form, we may process the data for administrative purposes and in order to respond to your message or query. In cases where an inquiry is regarding our goods or services, we may use your data in the process of marketing relevant goods or services to you.
If you subscribe to our email newsletter and/or email notifications, you consent to us processing the relevant data you have provided in order to send you our newsletter/notifications.
We may process information that you publish to our site including comments or forum posts. 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 register an account with us, we may process the account data that you have submitted including your name and email address. We may use this data in the process of operating and ensuring the security of our website and in providing services.
Transactions
If you buy a product or service on/through our website, we and/or our payment services provider may process transaction data including your credit card details, your contact information, and details of the purchased product or service. Records of transaction data will be maintained for legal and administrative purposes and in order to supply the purchased product or service.
We may process your personal data where necessary to comply with the legal obligations of our business. The data outlined above may be used where necessary in legal proceedings established to protect our legal rights and the legal rights of others.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. When you visit our site, cookies may be stored on your computer. We use cookies for purposes of personalization of site preferences, authentication, security, advertising, and analysis of our website use and performance. When you visit our website, cookies from third-party service providers may be stored on your computer.
We use WordPress, which uses cookies to save login information and data related to posting comments and articles. You can learn more about WordPress cookies here.
We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies to collect data about the use of our website. It helps us to understand how viewers are accessing and using our website. You can read Google’s privacy policy here.
We embed YouTube videos on our site that may use cookies. You can view more information about Youtube/Google’s cookies here.
Blocking or deleting cookies may affect the usability of our website.
Who we share your data with
We use hosting service providers Siteground to store our databases which may contain your personal data. You can view Siteground’s privacy policy here.
We may disclose your personal data where necessary to comply with the legal obligations of our business. We may disclose your personal data where necessary in legal proceedings established to protect our legal rights and the legal rights of others.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect data about the use of our website. It helps us to understand how viewers are accessing and using our website. You can read more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services here. You can read Google’s privacy policy here.
Media Services and Plugins
We embed content from other websites in our articles and posts. We embed Youtube videos using EmbedPlus for YouTube. The embedded content behaves as if you had visited the other website. These websites may use cookies and track or monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
We use the WordPress plugins Hummingbird and Smush. Hummingbird and Smush use the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location, and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found here.
Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers. Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip, and this service sets up a cookie. Drip collects only administrator information.
If you upload images to our 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.
International transfers of your personal data
Our website is hosted in the European Union (EU). Data that is transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) is protected by the data protection laws established by the European Commission. You can learn more about the European Commission’s data protection rules here.
By using our site, you acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication to our website may be available internationally via the internet. We are not liable for any use or misuse of such data by others.
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.
We will retain your data as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, and for legal or security purposes.
What rights you have over your data
The General Data Protection Regulation law regulates data protection and privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). You can learn more about GDPR here.
You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we have on file for you. 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. You can make a written request using the contact form here.
From time to time, we may make changes to this privacy policy. We will post an updated version on our website. We may notify you by email if we make significant changes to this privacy policy.
Contact
This website is: https://jessemblack.wpengine.com
If you have questions about our privacy policy, you can contact us using our contact form here.