Privacy Policy

Who we are

This is the website for Stanton Champion. Our website address is: https://www.stantonchampion.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.

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 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

This website hosts contact forms to allow visitors to correspond with us directly. These forms collect data to enable correspondence as well as to ensure the integrity of the message and to limit spam. When visitors contact us using our online forms, we may collect their name, email address, IP address, and browser user agent string. Correspondences may be retained indefinitely for security or legal purposes.

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 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 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to record aggregated data about usage as legitimate interest in maintaining and improving the site. Google Analytics will set a cookie on your browser that lasts for two years from your last visit. This site does not use Google Analytics to collect personalized data, however any personalized data that Analytics should collect will be deleted by Google after 26 months from your last visit. The Google Analytics privacy policy is available here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Server Logs

The servers that power this site collect logs that contain IP addresses. These logs are used for the purposes of ensuring security and proper functioning of the site, which are a legitimate interest. These logs are retained for 1 year and then deleted.

Who we share your data with

Excepting the details provided elsewhere in this document, we do not automatically share your data with anyone.

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.

Any personalized data collected by Google Analytics will be deleted after 26 months.

If you contact us directly using this website, your message may be retained indefinitely.

Server logs are retained for 1 year and then deleted.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, have left comments, or have contacted us in the past, 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

Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Contact information

You can contact us by visiting: https://www.stantonchampion.com/contact/