Privacy Policy

Who We are

Our website address is: www.talkwithdonuts.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect 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.

We use Disqus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using Disqus commenting system. Disqus may collect information about you when you register for and use the Service. Such information may include “Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that identifies you as an individual, such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, telephone number, username or account ID, and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that does not identify you as an individual. Non-Personally Identifiable Information may include, but is not limited to, information about your browser, your IP address, device ID, what pages you visit on our Partner Sites, which website you came from, what advertisements you clicked on, whether on our Partner Websites, the Service or other third party websites, and other information about your online activity that does not identify you as an individual, in accordance with their data Privacy Policyhttps://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy

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.

For more information about how to comment on this blog, please scroll to the Comment Policy section below.

Media

If you upload images to the website, 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

In order to contact Talk with Donuts, you may use the Simple Contact Form located in the Contacts page/tab on the menu above. To be able to contact Talk with Donuts, you must provide your name and email address with your comment/message. Talk with Donuts will only use this information to respond to your comment/message. This information will never be disclosed to other parties.

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.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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 one week. 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 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.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, Pinterest Analytics, and Disqus Analytics, all tracking tools, which collect and store cookies, personal, and privacy data about visitors to this website. The type of information that these tools collect is the frequency a user visits the website, which pages they visit when on the website, and how they arrived to the website. Talk with Donuts uses the information collected from Google Analytics, Pinterest Analytics, and Disqus Analytics only to improve the access and the presentation of the website. The tracking tool collects only the IP address of users when they visit this website, instead of personal identifying information such as a user’s real name. Talk with Donuts does not combine the information obtained through any of these Analytics with this identifiable information. However, a permanent cookie that identifies users’ web browser may be planted by the tracking tool to identify the user as unique the following time they visit Talk With Donuts. Regardless, only Google, Pinterest, and Disqus have the ability to use this obtained cookie information, separate of each other.

Google’s Analytics Term of Use/Service and Privacy Policy and Pinterest’s Analytics Terms of Service and Privacy Policy will offer more details on their own individual use and sharing of users’ information and you can have access to that information by clicking on those respective links. Disqus Analytic’s Terms and Privacy Policy may be accessed via this link: https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy . Users are free to opt out of Google Analytics, Pinterest Analytics, and Disqus Analytics having access to their personal identifiable information simply by clicking on disabling cookies on their browser.

Who we share your data with

This website shares information with Google Analytics and Pinterest Analytics, both tracking tools. It also shares information with Disqus Analytics and Disqus Social Comments.

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 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. Talk with Donuts uses Akismet Anti-Spam. Follow the link for their Privacy Policy: https://akismet.com/privacy/#:~:targetText=The%20gist%3A,over%20450%20billion%20spam%20comments. and their Terms of Service: https://akismet.com/tos/

Your contact information

All user’s personal information such as name and email may only be accessed by Talk with Donuts and will NOT be shared with any other parties. Name and email information will only be used to respond to a user’s email messages and to know how many subscribers there are to this website/blog.

Additional information

How we protect your data

Talk with Donut does not share your data to any third parties except to the Google Analytics, Pinterest Analytics, and Disqus Analytics tools to better visitors’ access and the presentation of this website to its visitors.

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

This website uses information from Google Analytics, Pinterest Analytics, and Disqus Analytics and Plugins such as Sucuri Security; WP Cerber Security, Antispam & Malware Scan; and Cookie Notice for GDPR.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements