Privacy Policy
We value your privacy, and want to provide you with information about what is collected, and how we use the information. Here is a simple explanation to provide answers to the most common questions, such as what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and/or delete your information.
Who we are
Our website address is: http://wanderbands.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
If you use the Facebook plugin to leave a comment, personally identifiable information will be received and handled in a manner consistent with their privacy policy, which can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php. Your name, and a link to your personal Facebook profile may be listed near your comment, identifying you as the individual who left the 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
When you provide us with personal contact information such as your email address, phone number, and name, we do not share your information. We may use this information to contact you regarding any enquiries you have made to us, or to provide you with information that you have requested such as newsletters, downloads, or other content. At any time, you may submit a request to have this personally identifiable information deleted from our databases. The best way for you to have this information deleted is to contact us via our contact page.
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.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We use Google Analytics to process personal information about you for the purpose of understanding things like how many people visit our site, what pages you visit, how long you spend viewing each page, your location, your browser type, your operating system, the time that you visited our site, the type of device you used to access our site, your browser language, your Wifi information and SSID, mobile carrier, unique device advertising identifier, and requested and referring URL’s.
Each time your IP address is identified by Google Analytics, the last few characters of it are deleted before it is processed, so your actual IP address is not stored on any server as a result of simply visiting our site. The parts that are stored help us to understand which countries our visitors are from.
However, using services on our site beyond viewing the information, may result in your IP address being stored such as when you create a comment, contact us, or interact with our social media widgets. More information about this can be found in the “social media information” section of this policy.
Google Analytics may store cookies on your device. Google Analytics collects first-party cookies, data related to the device/browser, a partial IP address and on-site activities to measure and report statistics about user interactions on our website.
You have a right to have any personally identifiable information removed. If you believe that we have any personally identifiable information about you, you may request to have it removed via our contact page.
If you would like to prevent Google Analytics from storing your personal information in the future, you may download a browser add on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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.
All of the information gathered via Google analytics concerning your use of our site is stored for a period of 26 months.
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
We respect your privacy, and do not share your contact information. If you choose to provide information via the comment section, or by interacting with widgets who work with third parties such as Facebook, your contact information will be handled according to their policies.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If we become aware of any data breaches, we contact the relevant parties as soon as possible to identify what we need to do next to prevent future data breaches. We also contact those affected and inform them of the situation.
What third parties we receive data from
We may receive information from Google Analytics, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon,Reddit, Pinterest, WordPress, Google, and other parties in order to process information and allow you to interact with our site, and their sites.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We use some data, such as your IP address, or trends with your comments to identify potential spammers. This helps us to keep our site free of spam and other unsatisfactory content.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
You have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe there has been an infringement during the processing of personal data relating to you and the general data protection regulation.
Information about social media plugins and widgets:
Google Analytics is our data processor. They compile, process, and store this data.
We use Google Analytics to track social shares made on our website. Google automatically collects and stores certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
We use a Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
We use a Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy
We use a StumbleUpon Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. Log Data is a form of Non-Identifying Information, in accordance with their privacy policy: http://www.stumbleupon.com/privacy
We have done our best to provide you with as much information as possible about how we use your data. If anything is not clear, or you would like further clarification about anything, please take an opportunity to contact us.