Privacy Policy
How your information is collected and used.
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how AreasGrey.com uses and protects any information that you give us. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If you provide us with personal information through AreasGrey.com, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, AreasGrey.com 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. AreasGrey.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how AreasGrey.com’s visitors use its website. From time to time, WordPress.org may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
AreasGrey.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. AreasGrey.com does not use IP addresses to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to WordPress.org choose to interact with AreasGrey.com in ways that require AreasGrey.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that AreasGrey.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who use our forums to provide a username and email address.
In each case, AreasGrey.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with AreasGrey.com. AreasGrey.com 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, like engaging in member treasure hunts.
All of the information that is collected on AreasGrey.com will be handled in accordance with GDPR legislation.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
AreasGrey.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of project administrators, employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on AreasGrey.com’s behalf or to provide services available through AreasGrey.com, 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 AreasGrey.com, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
AreasGrey.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to project administrators, employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, AreasGrey.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, if you give permission to have your information shared, or when AreasGrey.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of AreasGrey.com, third parties, or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of a AreasGrey.com website and have supplied your email address, AreasGrey.com 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 AreasGrey.com and our products. We primarily use our blog 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. AreasGrey.com
takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Use of personal information
We use the information you provide to register for an account, attend our events, receive newsletters, use certain other services, or participate in the Areas Grey project in any other way.
We will not sell or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
We would like to send you email marketing communication which may be of interest to you from time to time. If you have consented to marketing, you may opt out later.
You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.
Legal grounds for processing personal information
We rely on one or more of the following processing conditions:
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our legitimate interests in the effective delivery of information and services to you;
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explicit consent that you have given;
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legal obligations.
Access to 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.
Retention of personal information
We will retain your personal information on our systems only for as long as we need to, for the success of the Areas Grey project and the programs that support AreasGrey.com. We keep contact information (such as mailing list information) until a user unsubscribes or requests that we delete that information from our live systems. If you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you so that we may honor your request.
AreasGrey.com will not delete personal data from logs or records necessary to the operation, development, or archives of the Areas Grey project.
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.
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.
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.
Rights in relation to your information
You may have certain rights under data protection law in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you may have a right to:
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request a copy of personal information we hold about you;
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ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or independently correct such personal information that you think is incorrect or incomplete;
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ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you from live systems, or restrict the way in which we use such personal information (for information on deletion from archives, see the “Retention of personal information” section);
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object to our processing of your personal information; and/or
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withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing).
