TrudyQ Consulting Privacy Policy – Protecting Your Personal Information
At TrudyQ Consulting, we understand the importance of protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your data when you visit our website at https://www.trudyq.co.za.
Comments
When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string for spam detection purposes. Your email address may be hashed and provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. Your profile picture, if approved, will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Please note that if you upload images to our website, we advise against including location data (EXIF GPS) in them. Visitors to our website can download and extract location data from images on the website.
Cookies
We may use cookies to save your name, email address, and website when you leave a comment on our site. These cookies will last for one year for your convenience. If you log in, we will also save your login information and screen display choices with cookies. 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, the login cookies will be removed.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on our site may include embedded content from other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you have 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, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, we will retain the comment and its metadata indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
For users who register on our website, we also store their personal information in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username. Website administrators can also view and edit that information.
Your Data Rights
If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you have the right to request 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, except for any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.