Privacy Policy

Who we are

The website address is: https://www.creativewordplay.net.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this website data collected is 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.

Currently, and for the foreseeable future, only the administrator of this website can leave comments under posts.

Media

If you upload images to this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to this website can download and extract any location data from images on this website.

Currently, and for the foreseeable future, only the administrator of this website can upload images to this website.

Cookies

WordPress Cookies

If you leave a comment on this website 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.

If you visit this website’s login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, this website will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Currently, and for the foreseeable future, only the administrator of this website is allowed to register and login to this website.

Third Party Vendor Cookies

Google provides the advertisements appearing on this website. Advertisements are delivered to users through the use of cookies.

These cookies provide Google with details such as your IP address, your ISP, and what browser you use based on prior visits to this website and other websites. This information allows Google to compile information and use that information to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.

If you wish to opt out of personalized advertisements you may do so by either adjusting your browser settings, following this link to Google.com and adjusting your personal settings, or following this link to Aboutads.info in order to opt out of third party vendor personalized ads by company.

This website uses Google Analytics, an analytics service provided by Google. The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on its servers. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of this website, compiling reports on website activity for website administrator and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.  Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained from http://www.google.com/privacy.html.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this website 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.

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 this 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through Akismet, an automated spam detection service. Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

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.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, this website may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in this website’s sole discretion. This website encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this website after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy do not use this website. By using this website you consent to the collection and use of information by all parties aforementioned.