Who we are
Our website address is: http://clarekauter.com. This website is run by Clare Kauter and complies with all Australian requirements and laws for user privacy, as well as European and UK GDPR and cookie regulations.
This website and its owner take all necessary steps to protect the privacy of its users during their visit to the website, in accordance with Australian law and requirements for user privacy.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
In order to operate the website or deliver a service, personal information may be shared with a service provider.
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.
Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience.
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 a WordPress account and you log in to this site, WordPress 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, WordPress 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 via WordPress, 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.
In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, 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. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser.
Akismet
This site uses Akismet for anit-spam services. WordPress collects 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).
Analytics
A Jetpack plug-in is used for administrative purposes, statistics and general analytics on this site. Jetpack uses temporary cookies to perform these functions. You can find more specific information about how these cookies are used, what information is collected and how long it is stored at Jetpack’s Cookies page.
Social media and embedded content from other websites
This website contains links to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest. If users visit these websites, they are subject to these websites’ terms and conditions and privacy policies.
This website may use sharing buttons which allow users to share content from this website directly to social media sites. Users are advised that they use these buttons at their own discretion, and that these social media sites may track and save your activity when these buttons are used.
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.
Who we share your data with and where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Website Hosting
This website is hosted by Bluehost and powered by WordPress. Every effort is made to ensure the security of any data collected and we require all third party service providers to treat your data in accordance with the law.
Email Newsletter
This website employs an email newsletter, used to inform subscribers about information and products provided by the website and its owners. Email addresses are held securely by a third party service provider, MailChimp, located in the United States. This provider may track information such as the opening and forwarding of emails, clicking of links, and the time and date emails were opened. This information is used to make future emails more relevant based on subscribers’ activity. You can view the service provider’s privacy policy here.
Visitors to the website can subscribe here via an automated system at any time at their own discretion.
We won’t spam you or sell or rent your email address. Every email sent contains an unsubscribe link, allowing subscribers to unsubscribe via an automated system at any time.
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.
Email addresses are stored with our third party service provider indefinitely unless the individual requests to have their data removed.
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.
Information may be reviewed by contacting us via clare@clarekauter.com.
Any requests or complaints will be dealt with within thirty days as per Australian regulations.
More information can be found on the Australian Government’s Privacy Principles page.
Affiliate Links
This website sometimes uses affiliate links, which means if you click through and buy something from a link here on the website, we may earn a commission. If you like what we do, this is a great way to help support the website and keep us writing, blogging and making videos.
Blog
This website has a blog which may be followed via the WordPress subscription feature. You can manage your WordPress subscriptions here.
This website and blog allow comments. Users commenting on posts and pages are advised that they provide any information at their own discretion.
This website is not responsible for comments left on the website by other people.