This website www.pattywolters.com , referred to in this Privacy Policy as website or site, is build and maintained by Patty Wolters. In case you want to contact me, send an email to contact@pattywolters.com.
This is the overall thought I keep in mind with regard to any information you provide, or I collect.
Please be assured that all verbal and written information exchanged with me is considered and therefore managed confidential, with the exception in the cases I am obligated to pass on information due to law.
The following information relates to online data only, as required by GDPR:
More information about GDPR you can find here: General Data Protection Regulation
Like almost 80% of all websites worldwide, also this site is carried out using the software of WordPress.org. In addition, I also use the services of Jetpack.com. In case you use have a WordPress account and created a Gravatar, it is good to know, besides WordPress and Jetpack, Gravatar is also part of Automattic.com.
https://nl.wordpress.org/about/privacy/
https://automattic.com/privacy/
https://jetpack.com/support/cookies/
My domain is hosted by WordPress, for which I refer you to their Privacy Policy:
https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
This site, pattywolters.com, is protected by an SSL certificate to ensure encrypted exchange of information.
I may use your personal information for:
I will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.
I would like to emphasize that by collecting data via the services I use, it will not be possible for me to see any of your personal data like your home-address, telephone numbers. I also checked all statistic overviews: your IP-address and the country you are the moment you visit my website, is not revealed to me. I can see you visited my site and if you did so as a guest or as a WordPress or Blogger subscriber.
Comments & Contact-form
When posting a comment, subscribing to any content at this site, or submitting the contact-form, you are giving voluntary permission to store your name and email-address exactly as provided by you. In this case all information provided will be used for sending you updates of blog-posts or any other specific subscriptions you have registered for. Per example a newsletter.
Your name will appear at the comments only in the way you provide it to the site. Important: if you feel the need of your comment or subscription to remain anonymous, please feel free to use a nickname and an untitled mail-address.
Posting comments in a world like ours, always needs to be done with most care, after thinking twice. When posting a comment, your comment becomes public directly after approval of me, the site owner. Please note that, after approval, reactions underneath each post will remain visible. In case of any harmful remarks that might injure other people, or if they are intended to be disrespectful or malicious in any way, the site owner might decide to refuse or delete your comment without any warning. If you feel the need of your comment to remain private, or you want it deleted after publication, please send an email to express your feelings: contact@pattywolters.com.
Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Askimet, part of Automattic is the detection service I use.
https://automattic.com/privacy/
http://www.loginizer.com/
Cookies
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.
Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date. It is also the reason, why you will have to agree via a pop-up box for the use of these cookies.
I may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the website. The session cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the website. The persistent cookies to: enable my website to recognize you when you make subsequent visits to this website.
The services I use to keep track of your visits on my website:
JetPack.com – https://jetpack.com/support/cookies/
Embedded content from other websites:
This website regularly includes embedded content (e.g. video’s, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you have visited the other website.
These other websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If I understood correct, services like Facebook and Elementor are embedded content too. I refer you to their privacy policies to find out, what they do with your data:
https://facebook.com/
https://elementor.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
I may disclose information about you:
Except as provided in this privacy policy, I will not provide your information to third parties.
I also would like to refer to my Disclaimer: https://pattywolters.com/disclaimer/
Approximately once a year I will check this Privacy Policy, or sooner if required by law. In case changes are made, I will update this page. My aim is to be as transparent and accurate as possible: please contact me, if necessary information is missing in, or you have questions regarding, this privacy policy via an email send to contact@pattywolters.com
Patty Wolters
2006-2021
Updated: January 14, 2021
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