Privacy Policy

AJGordon.ca Data Collection

Your privacy is as important to me as my own. When you choose to contact me—whether through my email contact form or in blog comments—I will protect your information to the best of WordPress’s ability.

Data that this website collects and why

AJGordon.ca will not intentionally share your contact information with outside parties, and will not collect your data except for the following legitimate operational reasons:

Analytics

Aggregated website traffic is analyzed anonymously for bandwidth and application needs. This generalized data is not used for sales or marketing, and is not stored.

Contact form email addresses

When you email me for hiring enquiries or work estimates, I store your contact data securely for replies and follow-up. If you choose, I will maintain your contact information for updates and announcements about related services and activities—these will never be automated email blasts and you can ask me to remove your records at any time.

Spam detection

Visitor comments and email form submissions are checked through automated spam detection services (like Google reCAPTCHA).

WordPress Data Collection

WordPress collects and stores data beyond the basic functions of this website for legitimate WordPress operations.

Data that WordPress collects and why

Reasons that your data is collected by WordPress when you interact with this website:

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we (WordPress) 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.

Contact form 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 visit the WordPress login page, 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.

Media warning

If you upload images to the website comments, 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.

How long WordPress retains 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.