Your privacy is critically important to us.

At Elaine Chew, we have a few fundamental principles:

  1. We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
  2. We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
  3. We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on your website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
  4. We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.
  5. We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Who We Are

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

What Personal Data We Collect And Why We Collect It

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our 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

Users’ personal data collected will be stored but never sold or shared with third-party.

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

Our website uses Google Analytics. However, we do not share users’ personal data with Google Analytics. Google Analytics is primarily used for website traffic analyses and to analyze how users interact with our site.

How We Share Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information.

We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

  • With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third-party with which you authorize us to do so, such as the social media services that you connect to your site through our Publicize feature.
  • Other Site Owners: If you have a WordPress.com account and leave a comment on our site (like a site created on WordPress.com or a site running Jetpack), your IP address and the email address associated with your WordPress.com account may be shared with the administrator(s) of our site where you left the comment.

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.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (a.k.a. the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

  • Request access to your personal data;
  • Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
  • Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
  • Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
  • Request portability of your personal data.

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you are not able to do that, or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights, scroll down to How to Reach Us to, well, find out how to reach us.

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.

Personal Data Request

Please use this form to request personal data export or erasure.

Select your request:


Where We Send Your Data

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

How We Protect Your Data

Our website uses HTTPS.  HTTP Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. The “S” in HTTPS stands for “Secure”. It is the secure version of the standard HTTP your web browser uses when communicating with our website. HTTPS can protect page authenticity, secure accounts, keep user communications, identity and web browsing private.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our site for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

To enhance the security of your account, we encourage you to enable advanced security settings, like Two Step Authentication.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Elaine Chew may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy.

How To Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please contact us.