Privacy Policy

<h2><strong>Privacy Policy&colon; Who we are<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>This Privacy Policy applies to our website address&colon; https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;squeekx&period;com&period;  The owner and publisher of the site is Don McElyea&comma; e-mail&colon; admin&commat;squeekx&period;com&period;  This site is operated as a personal blog to display and discuss the opinions and&sol;or positions of the owner on subjects of interest&period;  We also run various advertising media for compensation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>Comments<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>When visitors leave comments on the site&comma; we collect the data shown in the comments form&comma; and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An anonymized string created from your email address &lpar;also called a hash&rpar; may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it&period; The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here&colon; https&colon;&sol;&sol;automattic&period;com&sol;privacy&sol;&period; After approval of your comment&comma; your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>Media<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>If you upload images to the website&comma; you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data &lpar;EXIF GPS&rpar; included&period; Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>Cookies<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>If you leave a comment on our site&comma; you may opt-in to saving your name&comma; email address and website in cookies&period; These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment&period; These cookies will last for one year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you have an account and you log in to this site&comma; we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies&period; This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When you log in&comma; we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices&period; Login cookies last for two days&comma; and screen options cookies last for a year&period; If you select &&num;8220&semi;Remember Me&&num;8221&semi;&comma; your login will persist for two weeks&period; If you log out of your account&comma; the login cookies will be removed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you edit or publish an article&comma; an additional cookie will be saved in your browser&period; This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited&period; It expires after 1 day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>Embedded content from other websites<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Articles on this site may include embedded content &lpar;e&period;g&period;&comma; videos&comma; images&comma; articles&comma; etc&period;&rpar;&period; Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These websites may collect data about you&comma; use cookies&comma; embed additional third-party tracking&comma; and monitor your interaction with that embedded content&comma; including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>Who we share your data with<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>If you request a password reset&comma; your IP address will be included in the reset email&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>How long we retain your data<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>If you leave a comment&comma; the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely&period; This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For users that register on our website &lpar;if any&rpar;&comma; we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile&period; All users can see&comma; edit&comma; or delete their personal information at any time &lpar;except they cannot change their username&rpar;&period; Website administrators can also see and edit that information&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>What rights you have over your data<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>If you have an account on this site&comma; or have left comments&comma; you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you&comma; including any data you have provided to us&period; You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you&period; This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative&comma; legal&comma; or security purposes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><strong>Where we send your data<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<h3><strong>Akismet<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service&period; The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site&comma; but typically includes the commenter&&num;8217&semi;s IP address&comma; user agent&comma; referrer&comma; and Site URL &lpar;along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name&comma; username&comma; email address&comma; and the comment itself&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>ProfilePress<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>During user registration and checkout&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll ask you to provide information&comma; including your name&comma; billing address&comma; email address&comma; phone number&comma; and optional account information like username and password&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We may also collect your credit card number&comma; expiration date&comma; and security code and pass them to our payment gateway to process your purchase&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We use the information we collect to&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Set up your account<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Process payments and prevent fraud<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>To prepopulate the checkout form for future purchases<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>To get in touch with you if needed to discuss your order<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Comply with any legal obligations we have&comma; such as calculating taxes<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Send you information about your account and order<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Respond to your requests&comma; including refunds and complaints<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Send you marketing messages&comma; if you choose to receive them<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes we collect and use it&comma; and we are not legally required to continue to keep it&period; For example&comma; we will store your order information for tax and accounting purposes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you&&num;8217&semi;re browsing our site&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><strong>LiteSpeed Cache<&sol;strong><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience&period; Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site&period; All cache files are temporary&comma; and are never accessed by any third party&comma; except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor&period; Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration&comma; if necessary&period; We may use QUIC&period;cloud services to process &amp&semi; cache your data temporarily&period;  Please see <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;quic&period;cloud&sol;privacy-policy&sol;">https&colon;&sol;&sol;quic&period;cloud&sol;privacy-policy&sol;<&sol;a><&sol;u> for more details&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;squeekx&period;com&sol;terms-of-use&sol;&quest;preview&lowbar;id&equals;645&amp&semi;preview&lowbar;nonce&equals;572bc6831f&amp&semi;&lowbar;thumbnail&lowbar;id&equals;-1&amp&semi;preview&equals;true" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Terms of Use<&sol;a><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<a class&equals;"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-48 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox" data-provider&equals;"facebook" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow" title&equals;"Share on Facebook" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;sharer&period;php&quest;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;squeekx&period;com&percnt;2Fprivacy-policy&percnt;2Famp&percnt;2F&&num;038&semi;t&equals;Privacy&percnt;20Policy&&num;038&semi;s&equals;100&&num;038&semi;p&&num;091&semi;url&&num;093&semi;&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;squeekx&period;com&percnt;2Fprivacy-policy&percnt;2Famp&percnt;2F&&num;038&semi;p&&num;091&semi;images&&num;093&semi;&&num;091&semi;0&&num;093&semi;&equals;&&num;038&semi;p&&num;091&semi;title&&num;093&semi;&equals;Privacy&percnt;20Policy" style&equals;"font-size&colon; 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