Who we are:

This is a private, non-commercial blog. Our website address is: https://kkjourney.us. In accordance with various US and international data privacy laws, this page outlines the information that is collected about our visitors and what we do with it. We will never sell your information. We may share your information as necessary with our third-party service providers to provide our services to you. All information we collect is secured and password protected.

Information We Collect:

Notification Subscription:

When visitors subscribe to notifications of new post publication on our site, we collect name and e-mail address. This is used only to send automated e-mails to subscribers when a new post is published.

To send you emails, we use the name and email address you provide us. Our site also logs the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system.

This website can send emails through the MailPoet Sending Service. This service allows us to track the number of opens and clicks on our emails.

No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.

Comments:

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 with spam detection. We use an automated spam detection and comment management service and they have access to that data.

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 a profile picture. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your Gravatar profile picture, if you ahve one, is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

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 from YouTube, and Google fonts and maps: https://policies.google.com/privacy ) 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.

Who we share your data with:

We do not actively share your data with anyone. Our website uses third-party services to maintain the website – comments, notification, security, and web hosting. These service providers include our website hosting service, WordPress, and services from Google such as maps and fonts, services from Automattic, Inc. including Jetpack, Akismet, Mail Poet, and Gravatar. The Automattic privacy policy is here: https://automattic.com/privacy They have access to the limited data that is collected in order to provide the necessary service for the operation of the site, as outlined above.

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. If you subscribe to updates, the information provided (your name and email address) is retained until you unsubscribe.

What rights you have over your data:

If you have subscribed to notifications 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.

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including some US states and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• Request access to your personal data;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
• Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
• Request portability of your personal data.
• You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

US Privacy Laws:

Laws in some US states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia, require us to provide residents with additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it. You’ll find that information in this section (if you are a California resident, please note that this is the Notice at Collection we are required to provide you under California law).

We collected the following categories of personal information, depending on the Services used:

• Identifiers:
  • Name.
  • E-mail address.
  • Device and online identifiers such as IP address.

Contact:

If you have a question about this policy or would like to contact us for any reason, please contact us via this email link.

Whew! I hope that covered it all!

Thanks for visiting,
Kate

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Change Log:

November 14, 2023: Published