Who we are
This website address is: https://susanne.ie. I write a personal blog to share my story, interests, and my photography. I generally do it without profit in mind but I will eventually offer and feature products that I made that might interest you, such as my designs printed on certain products, or printed photos.
I’m very serious about privacy on the internet and the only reason I use statistics (for now I use a cookie-less, privacy-focused tool) is to see how people found my blog and what they clicked on, which helps me see what post types are more popular and where my audience mostly hangs out. (See more info below)
I will never do anything creepy and will never incorporate tracking ads.
Comments
If you leave a comment on the site I 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 (which is the picture shown next to your comment) 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.
Subscription form
To offer the possibility to subscribe to new posts by e-mail, I’ve now switched to a service called Kit. You can read their privacy policy here.
I will only use your e-mail address to send e-mails about new blog posts, and your preferences are saved on the Kit platform so that you can receive the topics of your choice. It may happen that I send important news about the blog that you should know about.
The subscribe form has a small tracker that lets me know where a particular user signed up from (the form here on the blog or the landing page at Kit’s own platform).
If you sign up you can choose what topics to subscribe to, or if you want to subscribe to everything. You can unsubsribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the e-mail footer, or change your topic preferences by clicking the “preferences” link, also in the e-mail footer.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. I use WordPress as a platform to build this website.
- Essential functional cookies are always used, which allows WordPress, the website platform, to work. These cookies do not collect personal data.
- 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.
Website statistic
I use a privacy-friendly service for website statistics. This is cookie-free and helps me see how people got to the website (if they followed a link, search enging or something else), where they are from, what device/screen size they are using, what they click on and similar things to help me make the site useful and interesting.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you have chosen to leave a comment, the data you shared in the comment form (and IP address) will be stored in the database. This is so that your comment can be shown on the 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.
What rights you have over your data
If you 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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.