PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is very important to us. At Tadpole we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
It is The Tadpole Agency’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Tadpole Agency collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Tadpole Agency’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Tadpole Agency’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Tadpole Agency may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Tadpole Agency also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. The Tadpole Agency only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Tadpole Agency’s websites choose to interact with The Tadpole Agency in ways that require The Tadpole Agency to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Tadpole Agency gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Tadpole updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, The Tadpole Agency collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Tadpole Agency. The Tadpole Agency does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
The Tadpole Agency may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, The Tadpole Agency may monitor the most popular pages on the thetadpoleagency.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. The Tadpole Agency may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Tadpole Agency does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Tadpole Agency discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Tadpole Agency’s behalf or to provide services available at The Tadpole Agency’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Tadpole Agency’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Tadpole Agency will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Tadpole Agency discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests, or when The Tadpole Agency believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Tadpole Agency, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of The Tadpole Agency website and have supplied your email address, The Tadpole Agency may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Tadpole Agency and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Tadpole Agency takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
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. The Tadpole Agency uses cookies to help The Tadpole Agency identify and track visitors, their usage of The Tadpole Agency website, and their website access preferences. The Tadpole Agency visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Tadpole Agency’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Tadpole Agency’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If The Tadpole Agency or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Tadpole Agency goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of The Tadpole Agency may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Tadpole Agency may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at The Tadpole Agency’s sole discretion. The Tadpole Agency encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.thetadpoleagency.com.
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
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 our 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.
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.
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.