Privacy Policy of www.simongreaves.co.uk (personal blog by author Simon Greaves)
Effective from 5th April 2020
Personal Statement (by Simon Greaves)
Simon Greaves “I” (“us”, “we”, or “our”), owner, operator and blog author for this website (“service”, “site”, “blog”) take your privacy very seriously.
Summary
The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform “you” (“visitor”, “user”, “consumer”) of the service, the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use, and process. Furthermore, processing of personal data, which includes “your” (“you”) name, address, email address, and IP address will be in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You are informed, by this privacy policy of the rights to which you are entitled.
In order to provide this service to you, the following statements in regard to the privacy policy and usage terms are provided.
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Analytics Google Analytics Personal Data: Cookies and Usage Data
What information is collected about you
a) Google Analytics
Please refer to the appropriate Google Analytics documentation for the specific type of data it collects. Also refer to the Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
b) Security and Access In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.
Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.
Cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file that is sent to your web browser and stored on your device (E.g. Mobile phone, tablet, laptop, computer) that allows us to identify and remember “you”. When you visit this site, information may be collected automatically through the use of cookies.
Commenting for blog posts on this site utilizes embedded Tweet on certain blog posts using the Twitter’s JavaScript API. To maintain privacy, blog post pages are loaded with which limits data collection by Twitter. See the Twitter Developer Privacy page for more details on the DNT feature and guidance for visitors of sites that use embedded Twitter comments.