Kevin Wright.me Privacy Policy
Effective Date: October 15, 2024
This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how Kevin Wright (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you use our website located at https://kevinwright.me (the “Website”).
Information We Collect
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the Website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, including the visitor’s name (optional), email address, and website (optional). We also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
- Gravatar: 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 for your profile picture. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/
- Media: If you upload images to the Website, we recommend avoiding uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.
Cookies
We use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize your experience on the Website. You have the option to opt-out of saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. However, this may require you to re-enter your information each time you leave a comment.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to remember your login information, screen display choices, and other preferences. They typically expire after a short period (e.g., two days for login cookies) or a longer period (e.g., one year for screen options cookies).
- Third-Party Cookies: Some embedded content from other websites (e.g., videos, images, articles) may set their own cookies. We have no control over these cookies and recommend you review the privacy policies of the respective websites for more information.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Improve the functionality and content of the Website
- Deliver personalized content and experiences
- Manage and respond to comments
- Send you administrative communications, such as password reset emails
- Secure the Website against spam and other malicious activities
Sharing Your Information
We will not share your personal information with third parties except in the following limited circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating the Website (e.g., web hosting, email marketing). These service providers are contractually obligated to keep your information confidential and secure.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with a court order, subpoena, or other legal process.
Data Retention
We retain your comment and its metadata indefinitely to facilitate automatic comment approval and avoid holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if applicable), 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 Website 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.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at kevin@kevinwright.me.