Privacy policy for https://www.sabinachantouria.com

What data is being collected?

When you use our Website (www.sabinachantouria.com) we gather certain information about you like your name and email address, if you sign up for the email newsletter, fill in the contact form or leave a comment.

This website also uses cookies that gather information like your preferences based on how you use the website. The website collects statistics, track information for security and behavior of the website visitors. You can always accept or decline cookies. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies when you visit the website.

The website also collects non-personally-identifying information, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The information gathered is used to compile statistical reports on user activity such as how often users visit the website, what pages they visit and for how long, etc. The information obtained from these analytics tools are used to monitor the performance and improve the website.

The website use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam.

How will the website use your data?

The website collects and process data when you:

• Voluntarily sign up for the Sabina Chantouria newsletter.
• Submit a message via the contact form or leave a comment.
• Use or view the website via your browser’s cookies.

Email newsletter – if you opt in to receive the Sabina Chantouria email newsletter, your name and email address is needed in order for you to receive these. You can choose to stop receiving the newsletter at anytime by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails or by contacting sabina.chantouria@gmail.com

Comments – if you choose to comment you will be asked to provide a username and email address. Note that comments will not be published. The website collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on the website.

Contact form – if you fill in the contact form you will be asked to provide your name and email address in order for the website manage contact form submissions. Your data provided through the contact form will be kept only during the time that it might be deemed necessary, useful and relevant.

Cookies – our website uses cookies. The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used: information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system; information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.

Your Personal Information may be used for the following:

• administering our website
• keeping the website secure
• contacting you based on your request
• improve user experience

The website will not share any information with unaffiliated third parties. The website service providers are given the information they need only in order to perform their designated functions, and we do not authorize them to use or disclose any of the provided information for their own marketing purposes.

We may disclose any personal information if required or permitted by law and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others.

How is your data being stored?

When you sign up to the newsletter, the data will be erased once it is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected. Your email address will only be stored for as long as your newsletter subscription is active. Unsubscribe at anytime by following the link included in the email newsletter.

We will not disclose your email address to any third parties except of utilizing a third-party provider to send such emails. We use Mailerlite, a GDPR-compliant email marketing platform. For more info, visit Mailerlite GDPR

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service on the website 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.

We store all the personal information you provide on secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers. We take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of any personal information and monitor our services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks. While no online service is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, you acknowledge that there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control.

GDPR and your data protection rights

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Legislation, a European Union (EU) law that came into effect on 25th May 2018, that gives you the following data protection rights as stated below.

The right to access, you have the right to request copies of your personal data. The right to rectification, you have the right to request that the website correct any information you believe is inaccurate or to complete the information you believe is incomplete. The right to erasure, you are entitled to have the personal data erased, under certain conditions. The right to restrict processing, you have the right to request that the website restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions. The right to object to processing, you have the right to object to the website’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions. The right to data portability, you have the right to request that the website transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If the personal information that the website holds about you needs to be corrected or updated, or if you have any questions, email sabina dot chantouria at gmail dot com

Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The website use cookies to collect, store, and track information for security and personalization, to operate and for statistical purposes. You always have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website. For more, info see https://automattic.com/cookies/

How the website uses cookies
The website uses cookies to improve your experience on our website, and understanding how you use our website. The website uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, the usage of http://www.sabinachantouria.com and their website access preferences. Consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our website.

What types of cookies are being used?

Required – These cookies are essential for our websites and services to perform basic functions and are necessary for us to operate certain features. These include those required to allow registered users to authenticate and perform account-related functions, store preferences set by users such as account name, language, and location, and ensure our services are operating properly.

Analytics and Performance cookies – allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. They optimize performance by collecting information on how users interact with the website, including which pages are visited most, as well as other analytical data. We use these details to improve how our website function and to understand how users interact with it. rces, to measure and improve Site performance.

We use these cookies to count visits and traffic sources, to measure and improve Site performance. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. Performance Cookies do not store any Personal Information.

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout for your web browser. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

If you don’t want Cookies on your computer you can restrict your internet browser’s use of Cookies (have a look at the “help” menu on your internet browser).

Privacy policies of other websites
The website may contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

The website include social media features, like buttons and widgets. These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of their respective providers.

Privacy Policy Changes

The website reserve the right to modify this Policy, we will then revise the updated date at the bottom of this page.

You acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions.