Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://startavetblog.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

The only personal data collected are your email address and name, if you choose to share them with us. These are necessary to send email newsletters and to communicate through the contact form. Otherwise, we don’t collect any personal data.

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

We have several contact forms on our website. You are required to fill out your name, email address, and include a comment regarding what you’re contacting us about.

Information gathered from contact forms is used for direct communication only. It is not sold or shared in any way with third parties.

Filling out contact forms is completely voluntary. In most cases, you will recieve a reply within 24 hours. The email you get a reply from will be: melody.joy.cary@gmail.com

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 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.

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

This site may have analytic software installed. This software is designed to share some information about who is visiting our site. This information is used to better serve those who visit.

Analytic software programs may collect data such as where you’re visiting from, your gender, and your age. This information is never connected with your name or any other personal information.

Who we share your data with

We don’t share any of your data with third parties. When you share your personal data with us, we only use it to communicate directly with you.

The only exception to this is if a law has been broken. In that case, we will allow the proper law enforcement agency to have full access to all of our data to pursue the person who committed the crime.

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

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 may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Your contact information is only used for contacting you. It’s only collected when you provide it. We will never reach out to you unless you fill out a contact form to be contacted by us.

Additional information

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to contact us at: melody.joy.cary@gmail.com