Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for www.chainfactor.com

We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at our site www.chainfactor.com. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site.

To learn more about what are cookies and how to control and disable cookies, go to here: https://cookiesandyou.com/.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.chainfactor.com.

You can contact us via elvenleisure [at] gmail [dot] 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.

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.

Newsletter

If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter (powered by MailChimp), we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications.

Contact forms

chainfactor.com does not use a Contact form.

Cookies

All web servers track basic information about their visitors. This information includes, but is not limited to, IP addresses, browser details, timestamps &  referring pages. None of this information can personally identify specific visitors to this site. The information is tracked for routine administration and maintenance purposes.

chainfactor.com, like all other websites, may use routine cookies to store information about a visitor’s preferences in order to better serve the visitor with customized content. You can however change your browser settings to disable cookies if you have privacy concerns.

chainfactor.com uses third-party advertising solutions such as Google AdSense, etc., to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information, not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number, about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

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.

To learn more about what are cookies and how to control and disable cookies, go to here: https://cookiesandyou.com/.

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 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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics and Jetpack by WordPress.com to track our website statistics.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data directly with anyone. However, Google AdSense, Google Analytics. Disqus Commenting, Gravatar.com, Facebook and Jetpack by WordPress may collect your data anonymously.

For more info about how Google collects and uses information, read https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

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 do not have to register with us. They register with Disqus or leave anonymous comments as well.

What rights you have over your data

You do not have to create an account with us. To receive an exported file of the personal data Disqus, etc., may hold about you, including any data you have provided to us, you will have to contact that service directly. 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. We use Disqus Commenting.

Our contact information

You can contact us via elvenleisure [at] gmail [dot] com.

Additional information

We also use Akismet Anti-Spam to protect our site from spam.