Some Opening Thoughts
We are not fans of cookies and privacy invasions, data collecting et al. We have closed off virtually everything we found from WordPress and other places – even where some fonts were coming from to be true to our feelings. But there are some website specifics that WordPress – our platform – does that is out of our control. Our intent is to never collect, share or provide any data to anyone anywhere This is part of our content in presentations – where we advise everyone to lock down data grabs to the extent they can. We do not use trackers except for what you found explained in our bottom banner that appears when you land on any of our pages. We do have a cookies section on this page as well that covers information in addition to what is available on the banner.
Who we are
You are visiting our website: the full address is: https:/www.literacyai.com.
Comments
NOTE: We found too much spam comments occurring so we have deactivated comments. Should this change we would amend our cookies notice on arriving at the website. If that changes, see the Cookies section for more detail.
If we bring back commenting, 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: automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. But, again, one of this is happening because of all the spam artists around the world making the exchange of real ideas an issue. Don’t you wish we could spam the spammers!
Media
If for any reason 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.
Cookies
You will have read about our use of 2 specific items when you first landed on any of our our pages and were faced with a bottom banner outlining the information. We really don’t want to repeat everything all over again here as it is redundant. If we welcome back commenting as an option, we will change the cookie information at the banner level. For future reference: if you were to leave a comment on our site you would be able to opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These would be for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when or if you leave another comment. We would have to decide if we keep these active and for how long and then have you go through banner hell all over again. For now this is not happening.
If we ever introduce and use a login page, we will have to change our cookie use information as well. Plus, 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. This too isn’t happening at present.
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 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
If you request a password reset – assuming we ever implement a password section to the site – your IP address will be included in the reset email. We do not share data for any other reason or purpose. And, hey, we don’t have password protected content so this isn’t a thing either.
How long we retain your data
Should we re-activate commenting, any comments you leave, 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. But, again, it ain’t happening currently.
For users that register on our website (if any such requirements are requested from you), we would also store the personal information provided in the user profile. All users would be able to 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. Not happening though.
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. But, as you probably have gathered by now, we are not collecting and storing virtually anything beyond the statcounter web visits tool information. Aren’t you glad we do not collect anything so you don’t have to worry about this? We suggest you consider what other websites are doing and what they state in their privacy statements. Seriously, we added some levity in our text on this page but you can’t assume websites are honourable whiteout checking first. Even then, you might find a lot of stuff going on under categories like “necessary cookies”. Necessary to who? One of the reasons we added detail in our banner customisation is because of the need we feel to explain what is happening. Very few sites consider this as useful or necessary – even though they love to use that word as a mask for all koinds of things that may track you beyond their pages. Frustrating for the user we know.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. But only if we re-activate commenting. But, again, we aren’t using the comments feature so this isn’t a thing either.
