Who runs this site?
I am a private individual who runs this site to share my personal opinions about art. I occasionally host a guest post by another person, which will be marked as such.
I use the following third party technologies:
- WordPress to run the site
- Akismet spam detection
- MailPoet to run the newsletter mailing list
Privacy mission statement
To be honest, I have no interest in knowing anything about you. I’m not selling you anything, I am not tailoring my content to anything except what I want to write about, and I don’t need to know. I welcome your comments if you choose to make them, but if you want to quietly read this site and have me never know about it, that’s fine with me. Unlike most sites, I don’t (intentionally) use analytics to track my readers. (I added that intentionally because I’m not sure what WordPress is doing behind the scenes, but I haven’t told it to track anything.)
Following the site
My recommended way (and most private) way of following the site is to use an RSS reader. I have no way of knowing if you’ve subscribed. The RSS feed of the site is located at https://idyllsketching.com/feed (this formula can be used for any WordPress site).
Newsletter Mailing List
The purpose of the newsletter is to email you a weekly digest of the latest blog entries. I provide the newsletter as an alternative to using an RSS reader that some people find more convenient. If you’d rather not have blog updates in your email, don’t worry – people on the mailing list aren’t getting anything extra you can’t find on the site. You won’t miss anything by not signing up.
When you sign up, my software records your IP address and a hashed version of your email for the purposes of sending you email and complying with EU privacy laws. I do not collect your name or any other information I don’t strictly need to send you the emails you asked for.
My newsletter mailing list is managed by the MailPoet service. You can automatically unsubscribe via a link in the email.
Although I can see how many users have subscribed, rest assured I am not paying attention.
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
Can you upload media to comments? I don’t even know. Maybe not.
Anyway, free advice, if you upload images to this or any other 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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.