Last updated: 8th December 2018
David Macmillan and associates (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the montmartrefootsteps.com website (the “Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service.
We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Information Collection And Use
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) may include, but is not limited to:
- Name
- Email address
Contact Form
The Contact form requires your name and email address. These may be collected by WordPress.org. Please refer to the WordPress privacy agreement. We will not pass emails or names on to third parties and will only use them to reply to your comment or query. The purpose of this site is informational. We will not collect emails or names for commercial or marketing purposes. On this site we have nothing to sell.
The contact form is a WordPress plugin provided by WPForms and you can see their privacy policy here.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you contact us or comment to :
- improve the experience of the website based on your feedback
- ask for ratings and reviews of the experience of the walk
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 anonymised 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.
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 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 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.
As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. You can find out more about cookies including how to disable them here.
If you leave a comment on the 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.
Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookies
The montmartrefootsteps.com site may use the Google AdSense network for commercial gain primarily in order to offset administrative and site running costs. This means that when you visit the site you may be served targeted advertising based on the kinds of sites you have previously visited.
Google advertising cookies
Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When displaying Google AdSense advertisements montmartrefootsteps.com will be part of this network. When users visit montmartrefootsteps.com, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user’s prior visits to montmartrefootsteps.com or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users of montmartrefootsteps.com based on their visit to montmartrefootsteps.com and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads settings. (You may also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info).
You can find out much more about how to identify the types of cookies that Google sets including those used in targeting advertising here
Google Analytics
Montmartrefootsteps.com uses Google Analytics to collects non-personally-identifying information such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, time on site, pages viewed, engagement etc. We use the metrics that Google Analytics generates in order to identify what is the most successful and useful content from the users point of view. We will use this information to serve more of what the user wants and improve site content. We can’t identify users personally through the cookies set by Google Analytics.
From time to time, montmartrefootsteps,com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report usage volumes or content usage trends.
More technical information on Google Analytics cookies can be viewed here.
Log Data
We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy including the Cookie Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address specifically anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.
Compliance With Laws
We will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law or subpoena.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by using the contact page.