Who we are
Our website address is: https://woodworkinsights.com. Thank you for visiting Woodwork Insights. We take your privacy seriously, and this policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information.
Data Collection
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.
Data Collection Methods
We collect data through our comment form and contact form. Users who wish to comment on our blog posts are required to provide their name and email address. Users who wish to use our contact form are required to provide their name, email address, and a message.
Log Files
At Woodworkinsights.com, log files are utilized according to standard procedures. Like all hosting companies, these files record visitors’ activities on websites as part of the hosting service analytics. The data captured by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), time and date stamps, referring/exit pages, and, in some cases, click counts. None of this information can be linked to any personally identifiable data. The primary objective of collecting this information is to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movements on the website, and collect demographic information.
Purpose of Data Collection
We collect personal information for specific purposes. First, we use this information to send newsletters to our users. Second, we use this information to respond to queries and comments on our blog posts. Finally, we may use this information to analyze and improve our website’s user experience.
Data Protection Measures
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We use encryption, access control, and data backups to protect your data.
Encryption: We use SSL encryption to encrypt all personal information in transit between your device and our servers. SSL is a security protocol that encrypts data and ensures that it is transmitted securely over the internet.
Access Control: We limit access to personal information to employees and contractors who need access to perform their job functions, such as customer service, website maintenance, and marketing.
Data Backups: We regularly back up our data to ensure that we can restore it in case of a data loss or security breach.
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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
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.
Google Analytics
We’ve also integrated Google Analytics to track usage on our website. Google may collect some usage data as well. You can read the google privacy policy here.
If you have any privacy concerns or questions, you can contact us through our contact form. We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.