Who we are
Grimalkin Crossing is an ecommerce business devoted to counted cross stitch and articles on personal wellness. Our website address is: http://gcxsd.metaphorpublications.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. We, however, do not extract that information, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if we did.
Contact forms
We currently use Everest Forms. If you fill out a contact form here, we store the information we ask for on the form, including your email address, so that we can respond to your issue or request. Once those issues or requests are completed, the form and all information on it is permanently deleted. We do not harvest or collect that information for any purpose.
There is a Google tracker on this site to help us manage our club membership, and to create a better experience for our members on our site. As you know, Google collects ALL THE DATAS about you it can possibly get. For our purposes, Google says this includes:
This Google information may include end user location, search history, YouTube history, and data from sites that partner with Google—and is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into your users’ cross device behaviors.
As a matter of principle, we try hard to limit what Google is tracking, but much of it is simply out of our control. If you’d like to take better control of your online privacy, we highly encourage this. Check out this webpage from the Electronic Frontiers Foundation to find out more information.
We DO NOT SELL OR SHARE the information about you that we collect on this site. Google may, but we do not.
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 visit our login page, 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We’re using Google Analytics to help us understand our site’s visitors and activity. As mentioned above, Google may sell the information about you that it gathers, but we do not.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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. You must provide a valid email address to which this data file may be sent.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We also share data with Mailchimp for our newsletter, and with Google Analytics for site tracking etc.
Your contact information
Alesia Matson c/o Metaphor Publications, Inc, PO Box 2545, McKinleyville CA 95519 or
support@metaphorpublications.com
Additional information
How we protect your data
Collecting ANY information is a new thing for us. We’re instituting data protection measures as of this writing, and will update this document when they are complete.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In progress. See above.
What third parties we receive data from
Mailchimp (our newsletter provider) provides us data about your interactions with any edition of our newsletters. Email tracking is endemic, but DuckDuckGo offers tracking protection through using a duck.com address, available through them. We recommend this or something like it to prevent your email activity from being tracked.
And as mentioned. Google Analytics provides us with information about your activity as it relates to our business here at Grimalkin Crossing.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
None.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
None.