Who I Am and What This Policy Covers
Greetings! I am Glenn Davis and this is my personal website, verevolf.com
This Privacy Policy applies to information that I collect about you when you use this site.
Below I explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.
Creative Commons Sharealike License
This Privacy Policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license. It is based upon the Automattic Privacy Policy of which can grab a copy on GitHub. Information We Collect
I only collect information about you if I have a reason to do so — for example, to provide Services, to communicate with you, or to make my Services better.
Information You Provide to Me
It’s probably no surprise that I collect information that you provide to me directly. Here are some examples:
- Basic account information: If you create an account I ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. For example, I require individuals who sign up for a account to provide an email address and password, along with a username or name — and that’s it. You may provide us with more information, but that’s all I collect.
- Public profile information: If you have an account with me, I collect the information that you provide for your public profile.
Information Collected Automatically
- Log information: Like most websites, I collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. I collect log information when you use this website.
- Usage information:I collect information about your usage of this website. Some of this information is collected and analyzed by Google.
- Location information: Software may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. I collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit this website from certain geographic regions.
- Information from cookies & other technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. Verevolf uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help identify and track visitors, and usage, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads.
How and Why We Use Information
Purposes for Using Information
We use information about you for the purposes listed below:
- To market Verevolf and measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of my marketing.
- To protect this website, our users, and the public. For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of myself and others.
- To fix problems with my website. For example, by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.
Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information
A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that my use of your information is based on the grounds that:
(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or charge you for a paid plan; or
(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
(4) To provide and update Verevolf; to improve Verevolf so that I can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard this website; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of any potential advertising; and to understand user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with the website; and to personalize your experience; or
(5) You have given me your consent — for example before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on.
Sharing Information
How I Share Information
I may share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy.
- Third-party vendors: I may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to me, or to provide their services to you.
- Legal and regulatory requirements: I may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
- To protect rights, property, and others: I may disclose information about you when I believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Verevolf, third parties, or the public at large.
- With your consent: I may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, I may share your information with third parties when you authorize me to do so.
I have a standing policy that I do not sell my users’ data. I am not a data broker, I don’t sell your personal information to data brokers, and I don’t sell your information to other companies that want to spam you with marketing emails.
Under a new California law, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), some personalized advertising you see online and on our services might be considered a “sale” even though I don’t share information that identifies you personally, like your name or email address, as part of any advertising program. I’m really not a fan or advertising.
Information Shared Publicly
Information that you choose to make public is — you guessed it — disclosed publicly.
That means information like your public profile, comments, or other content that you make public are all available to others — and I hope they get a lot of views!
Information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.
Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share publicly.
How Long is Information Kept?
Information about you is generally discarded when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which it is collected.c
Security
While no websitee is 100% secure, I strive to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. Verevolf monitors for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.
Your Rights
If you are located in certain parts of the world, including California and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.
European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:
- Request access to your personal data;
- Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
- Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
- Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
- Request portability of your personal data.
You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with some additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it.
The CCPA also requires me to provide a list of the “categories” of personal information I collect, as that term is defined in the law. If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the right to:
- Request to know the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, the categories of third parties we share it with, and the specific pieces of information we collect about you;
- Request deletion of personal information I collect or maintain;
- Opt out of any sale of personal information; and
- Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under the CCPA.
How to Reach Me
If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact me about any of the rights mentioned please email verevolf@verevolf.com
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, I may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. I encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If I make changes, I will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (like adding a statement to the website homepage Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.
Changelog:
16-May-2022: Created policy based on Automattic’s Privacy Policy