At TrailsAndFreedom.com (this site) we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here you can see what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit this site, and how we safeguard your information.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://trailsandfreedom.com. You can contact us at trailsandfreedom@gmail.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. We do not collect your email address from the comments form for use in any email list, such as a newsletter or marketing email list.
Media
Users are not able to upload images or other media files to this website.
Contact forms
This website does not have contact forms. You can contact us using the email address above.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site (Internet Explorer, Chrome, etc.), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies
Here is our Cookie policy.
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.
Analytics
As you use this site, we use automatic data collection technology (Google Analytics) to collect certain information about your device, browsing actions, and patterns. This generally includes information about where you are, how you use our website, and any communications between your computer and this site. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type. We collect this data for statistical purposes and we don’t collect personal information. The purpose of this data is to improve our site and offerings. If you want to opt out of Google Analytics so that none of your personal information is collected and stored by Google Analytics, you can download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here. For more information on how Google collects and uses your data, you can see the Google Privacy Policy here.
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. Users can’t register on our website.
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. You can make your requests by contacting us at this email address: trailsandfreedom@gmail.com.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service called Akismet by Automattic Inc. Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on sites that use the Akismet anti-spam service. The information Akismet collects typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself). You can see Akismet’s privacy policy here.
Our contact information
For questions about your data and how we use it, you can contact us at trailsandfreedom@gmail.com. You can also email us here if you want an extract of all your personal information stored on this website or to request that we delete all of your information stored on this website.
Additional information
How we protect your data
We use HTTP Secure (HTTPS) for secure communication between you and this site. You can read more about HTTPS here.