My website address is: http://www.jedwardcook.com


What is the policy?

The policy for this website is quite simple unlike a lot of other websites where they give you pages and pages of legal jargon that is mainly how they – the website owner – are protected when it comes to using your information when you are visiting their website.

Basically, your privacy is never shared, rented, lent, etc. – period. There are a couple of exceptions to this more below in a second.

When you come to the site, I want you to enjoy the site and not have to worry about what I’m going to gain from it – which is nothing, the site exists to give you some information about me.

Ok that being said, let’s get on with it:


1. Data Collection and Usage

Comments – currently the ability to leave a comment is turned off –

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

The only media allowed on the site is the media from J Edward Cook. Outside materials are not permitted. This is to help reduce potential spam and to also help prevent any links that could potentially send you to unsafe websites.

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.


Analytics


Who we share your data with

We don’t except in the items listed in this page.

How long we retain your data
-since comments and registered users are disabled, this is a mute point-

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
-since comments and registered users are disabled, this is a mute point-

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
-since comments and registered users are disabled, this is a mute point-

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service used mostly in comments and contact me emails

Your contact information

-since comments and registered users are disabled, this is a mute point-

Currently not collected


How we protect your data

Data protection is that the website is behind a firewall, and is automatically updated when the WordPress themes, plugins etc. are updated.
These are all done at site host level, I have nothing on my personal machine, all work is done server level.
Since I do not allow comments, and do not currently do any ecommerce transactions via the website, no personal information is ever recorded for the outside world. The site is currently a static view only website.

What data breach procedures we have in place?

Over the past ten plus years or so, I have only had two breaches with my photography website which hampered the functioning of the website to the outside world. There was no loss of any personal information of people who come to this website as I do not collect it.
The first occurrence was most likely due to a security issue from a plugin that I was using for a photo gallery – when I wanted to use that plugin again WordPress denied access to the plugin due to a ‘security issue’ with the plugin. I then upgraded to a more professional version.
The second was only an infection causing the php to not function correctly. This was mostly likely due to the database not being automatically updated properly – so I can’t say if it was actually an infection or if  the WordPress Theme or plugins were the problem. In any case, the problem was rectified the day after it happened and a scorched earth procedure took place regardless. Everything is now up-to-date and backed up on a regular basis.

As for breach procedures they are as follows:

1. Site is immediately locked down and password protected – meaning that if you the public come to the site, you would need a password to see the site and any of its content. This is not to infer that the site is not password protected. The site on the server and access to it, in order to run the site, etc. is ALWAYS password protected.

2. Email is sent to the server host for investigation – to see if the site was actually a) hacked, b) infected or c) if the site is not working right because a WordPress Theme update or plugin broke he code needed to display the site correctly.