Privacy Policy

TL;DR Summary (policy philosophy):

Look, privacy is important stuff these days. I’m going to treat visitors to this site like I would a visitor to my home. Meaning, I have to treat you nicely in order that you’ll come back. If you give me your email, I’ll send you an email the next time I’m hosting a function. I also have to serve food that doesn’t suck, so If you tell me you are gluten free or vegetarian, I’ll try to remember that next time you come by for dinner. If you tell me you don’t want to receive my dinner invites anymore, no worries, I’ll stop emailing you.

Let’s extend this to the online realm.

Therfore… If you give me your email when signing up to this site, I may send you intermittent emails about things I believe are of value to you. This site uses cookies and analytics to track usage of the site. If you sign up, I may email you from time to time with items pertinent to the site, testimonials, video, etc.  The site may remember your preferences (gluten-free vegetarian, etc) so your preferences are saved next time you come by.  Finally, the testimonials you save are your info. A copy of them gets sent to your registered email in PDF format. If you decide you want to stop receiving emails about site updates, interesting developments, etc, just unsubscribe.

Formal Privacy Policy:

Who we are

Our website address is: https://thebesttestimonials.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

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

Analytics

Who we share your data with

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.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

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

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements