Privacy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://lainibennett.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

What we collect and store

We collect information about you during the form submission process on our site.

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Form Fields Data: Forms Fields data includes the available field types when creating a form. We’ll use this to, for example, collect information like Name, Email and Country. This is to provide you with an email newsletter and to improve Birds of a Feather’s content.
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like geolocating users and reducing fraudulent activities.

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of form elements while you’re browsing our site.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.

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 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.

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.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that subscribe to our website, 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.

To request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, please complete the contact form.

Who on our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Editors can access:

  • Form submission information and other details related to it
  • Customer information like your name, email and address information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill newsletters and support you.

What we share with others

We share information with third parties who help us provide our newsletter to you; for example MailChimp.

We send beautiful email through MailChimp. When processing emails, some of your data will be passed to MailChimp, including information required to process or support the email marketing services, such as the name, email address and any other information that you intend to pass or collect including all collected information through subscription.

Please see the MailChimp Privacy Policy for more details.