Privacy Policy

What personal data do we collect, and why do we collect it…

At www.theglamtechie.com, we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information collected and recorded by www.theglamtechie.com and how we use this information collected.

Please read through this Privacy Policy page to learn more information about your information and the data collected.

Comment Privacy Policy and Guidelines

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.

Commenting Disclosure and Guidelines:

While I do welcome and respect all comments, including constructive comments, derogatory remarks, and hateful speech directed towards me or any other commenters of this site will NOT be tolerated and promptly removed.

Some of the topics of this blog could be up for solid and polarizing debates among commenters. You are always welcome to disagree with any posts or comments, but I ask that you always remain respectful as you never know who may be reading this blog and/or your comments.

My purpose with this blog to empower individuals, not allow them to tear each other down. 

Also, I ask that individuals please refrain from self-promotion of their own blogs, businesses, or social media sites (unless otherwise approved collaboration with The Glam Techie) within commenting areas, as these will be marked as spam and promptly removed.

I reserve the right to edit, delete, move, or mark any and all comments to this site as spam. In addition, I reserve the right to block access via IP address to anyone or group from commenting, subscribing to, and from accessing theglamtechie.com in regards to violating of this comment policy.

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 compromising your personal information.

Website usage of Cookies

The Glam Techie will utilize cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and personalize or customize our web page content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

Comment 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 have an account and 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.

We will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices when you log in. 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.

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 exactly 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

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. The site advertising partners include Google, Amazon, and CJ Affiliates.

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on www.theglamtechie.com and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site. www.theglamtechie.com has no access to or control over these cookies that third-party advertisers use.

How long your data is retained

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments 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 profiles. 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 do 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 we send your data

Visitor comments to theglamtechie.com may be checked through an automated spam detection service.