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Ausqueakan found at https://ausqueakan.com (“Website”) is regulated by the following privacy policy (hereinafter “Privacy Policy”). Effective Date: September 9, 2020

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect and use the personal data that we receive about you, as well as your rights in relation to that personal data, when you visit our Website and interact with it in any way, including passively.

This Privacy Policy does not cover any information that we may receive about you through sources other than the use of our Website. The Website may link out to other websites or mobile applications, but this Privacy Policy does not and will not apply to any of those linked websites or applications.

We are committed to the protection of your privacy while you use our Website.

By continuing to use our Website, you acknowledge that you have had the chance to review and consider this Privacy Policy, and you acknowledge that you agree to it. This means that you also consent to the use of your information and the method of disclosure as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not understand the Privacy Policy or do not agree to it, then you agree to immediately cease your use of our Website.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

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

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

You may be asked to provide certain personal data, such as your name and email address, for the purpose of receiving email marketing communications.

Cookies

We may collect information from you through automatic tracking systems (such as information about your browsing preferences) as well as through information that you volunteer to us (such as information that you provide during a registration process or at other times while using the Website, as described above).

For example, we use cookies to make your browsing experience easier and more intuitive: cookies are small strings of text used to store some information that may concern the user, his or her preferences or the device they are using to access the internet (such as a computer, tablet, or mobile phone). Cookies are mainly used to adapt the operation of the site to your expectations, offering a more personalized browsing experience and memorizing the choices you made previously.

A cookie consists of a reduced set of data transferred to your browser from a web server and it can only be read by the server that made the transfer. This is not executable code and does not transmit viruses.

Cookies do not record or store any personal data. If you want, you can prevent the use of cookies, but then you may not be able to use our Website as we intend. To proceed without changing the options related to cookies, simply continue to use our Website.

For security purposes (spam filters, firewalls, virus detection), the automatically recorded data may also possibly include personal data such as IP address, which could be used, in accordance with applicable laws, in order to block attempts at damage to the Website or damage to other users, or in the case of harmful activities or crime. Such data are never used for the identification or profiling of the user, but only for the protection of the Website and our users.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles on this Website 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.

WHY DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We primarily use your personal data to help us provide a better experience for you on our Website and to provide you the services and/or information you may have requested, such as use of our Website.

Information that does not identify you personally, but that may assist in providing us broad overviews of our customer base, will be used for market research or marketing efforts. Such information may include, but is not limited to, interests based on your cookies.

Personal Data that may be considering identifying may be used for the following:

• a) Improving your personal user experience
• b) Marketing and advertising to you, including via email
• c) Providing customer service to you
• d) Advising you about updates to the Website or related Items

SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

We share your personal information with third parties to help us use your personal information, as described above.

• Mailerlite: we use this service to power our email marketing. Read more about how Mailerlite uses your personal information here: https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy.

• Google Analytics: we use this service to help us understand how our customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your personal information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
  You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, although our policy is to maintain the privacy of your Personal Data as described herein, we may disclose your Personal Data if we believe that it is reasonable to do so in certain cases, in our sole and exclusive discretion. Such cases may include, but are not limited to:

• a) To satisfy any local, state, or Federal laws or regulations
• b) To respond to requests, such discovery, criminal, civil, or administrative process, subpoenas, court orders, or writs from law enforcement or other governmental or legal bodies
• c) To bring legal action against a user who has violated the law or violated the terms of use of our Website
• d) As may be necessary for the operation of our Website
• e) To generally cooperate with any lawful investigation about our users
• f) If we suspect any fraudulent activity on our Website or if we have noticed any activity which may violate our terms or other applicable rules

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

You have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

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.

OPTING OUT

From time to time, we may send you informational or marketing communications related to our Website such as announcements or other information. If you wish to opt-out of such communications, you may click the unsubscribe link which will be provided at the bottom of any and all such communications.

Please be advised that even though you may opt-out of such communications, you may still receive information from us that is specifically about your use of our Website or about your account with us.

By providing any personal data to us, or by using our Website in any manner, you have created a commercial relationship with us. As such, you agree that any email sent from us or third-party affiliates, even unsolicited email, shall specifically not be considered SPAM, as that term is legally defined.

ADDITIONAL

By continuing to use our Website in any manner, you manifest your continuing assent to this Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge, agree and accept that transmission of information or data via the internet is not always completely secure, no matter what steps are taken. You acknowledge, agree and accept that we do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information that you provide to us, and that you transmit such information at your own risk.

We reserve the right to modify, revise, or otherwise amend this Privacy Policy at any time and in any manner. If we do so, however, we will notify you and obtain your consent to the change in processing. Unless we specifically obtain your consent, any changes to the Privacy Policy will only impact the information collected on or after the date of the change. It is also your responsibility to periodically check this page for any such modification, revision or amendment.

CONTACT

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the following email address: ausqueakan@gmail.com.

Last updated: September 17, 2020