Updated 8/10/23
First and foremost, your personal privacy is very important to me. The information that you provide while visiting Uncomplicated Spaces (https://uncomplicatedspaces.com), is collected by me, Gillian, who is the sole proprietor of this website.
I am honored that you are choosing to visit Uncomplicated Spaces and I will treat any of the information you share with me, as a result of your visit, with respect.
This privacy policy will outline the type of information that is collected when you visit Uncomplicated Spaces. Please read the policy and contact me if you have any questions or concerns with how your information is collected.
What personal data is collected, and why.
Email Address
If you choose to sign up to my Uncomplicated Musings newsletter, I collect your email address via Substack, solely for the intent of providing you with newsletters. Your information is stored in my Substack account, which is password protected. I will never sell or share this information. Read the Substack privacy policy here.
If you email me directly, your email address will be saved in the Uncomplicated Spaces address book. I will only ever use this email to communicate with you concerning the issue at hand. I will never sell or share this information.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Uncomplicated Spaces, WordPress collects the data shown in the comments form (name, email address, and URL, if provided, and comment). WordPress also collects 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
This website uses cookies to improve your experience when you visit Uncomplicated Spaces. A cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer that remembers you when you return to my website.
WordPress places a cookie on your computer if you opt-in to saving your name, email address and website when you leave a comment. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
Analytics
This website uses Burst Statistics, a Privacy-Friendly Statistics Tool to analyze visitor behavior. For this functionality we (this website) collect anonymized data, stored locally without sharing it with other parties. For more information, please read the Privacy Statement from Burst here.
Anti-Spam Service
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Security
This website uses a third-party security plug-in called Wordfence. The Wordfence privacy policy is here.
Links to other websites
Articles on this site may include links to other websites. I may also share embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites. Embedded content from other websites behave 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.
If you visit or view content from the shared website, I have no control over what information they store about you. Please practice caution and view the privacy policies of those websites.
Who I share your data with & how I protect it
Your data is protected on this site via password protection and 2-factor authentication. I will never sell or share your information.
How long your data is retained
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so WordPress can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data I hold about you, including any data you have provided to me. You can also request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Contact information
If you have any questions or concerns over how your information is collected and/or used, please send an email to uncomplicatedspaces@gmail.com (uncomplicatedspaces [at] gmail [dot] com).
