Who we are
Our website address is: https://acitizensciencelife.com. Learn more about the people behind this blog on our About page.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When you sign up for our email list, we collect and store your email address so that we can send you links to new blogs as they are posted. At this time, that is the only information we collect. We hate spam as much as everyone else (I mean, who has time for it?) so we avoid it wherever we can!
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
On our About page, we have a Contact form. When you submit a contact form to us, we use the information provided to respond to your comment/question/concern but we do not use the information you submit to market to you. We archive our contact form requests in order to keep a record of the needs of our users.
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.
We use Google Ads that uses cookies to track your visits to our site. Below is a link to the Google Ads Privacy Policy, which also includes information for how to control the your Ad Settings.
View the Google Ads Privacy Policy
The Pinterest or Twitter icons embedded in our site also have cookies. You will only be tracked with those cookies if you click on them to share information you find on the site.
View the Pinterest Privacy Policy
View the Twitter Privacy Policy
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
We use Google Analytics on acitizensciencelife.com.
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You can opt-out of Google Analytics using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-On.
Who we share your data with
We may collect and store personal or other information that you voluntarily supply to us online while using acitizensciencelife.com. We only contact individuals who specifically request that we do so when they sign up for our email list.
We collect and store information that is generated automatically as you navigate online through acitizensciencelife.com. For example, we may collect information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, which allows us, among other things, to improve the delivery of our web pages to you and to measure traffic on the site. We also may use a “cookie” to enhance your experience with the site. Cookies are small files that your web browser places on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. By showing how and when visitors use acitizensciencelife.com, cookies help us deliver advertisements, identify how many unique users visit us, and track user trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter your preferences on certain areas of the Site where you may have entered preference information before.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information available for viewing by third parties online — for example on message boards, web logs, through email, or in chat areas — that information can be seen, collected and used by others besides us. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information.
We also include links to other websites and provides access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access another website or purchase third-party products or services through the acitizensciencelife.com, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting or the provider of such products or services.
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
If you have questions about your data, please contact the Sarah Newman at sarahnewman.citizenscience at gmail.com and we will assist you as best we can.
How we protect your data
Acitizensciencelife.com is secured with https data encryption. When you login or enter data, you can do so knowing your data is encrypted.