Your privacy is important to us. This statement describes the information practices for adventureslived.ca and describes what type of information is collected and how that information is used by us and any third parties.
What personal data is collected and why:
Comments
When visitors leave comments on adventureslived.ca, 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.
Media
If you upload images to adventureslived.ca, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If you use a contact form on adventureslived.ca, we will store only what is necessary to contact you.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on adventureslived.ca, 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 have an account and you log in to adventureslived.ca, we will set a temporary cookie 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, we 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on adventureslived.ca 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.
Collection of Non-identifiable information
We sometimes collect non-identifiable information from visits to adventureslived.ca to help us provide better customer service. As an example, we keep track of the domains from which people visit and measure visitor activity on this Website. We, or others we authorize, may use this data to analyze trends and statistics and to help us provide better customer service.
Some pages on adventureslived.ca use technologies to monitor how people use the site to help us improve the functionality of our Web sites. When a visitor accesses these pages, a non-identifiable notice of that visit is stored and made available to us to improve our Website and better understand our customer needs.
Who we share your data with:
We do not share your data with anyone with out your permission other than as described in this document.
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 adventureslived.ca, 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 we send your data:
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
