Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://joswims.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public alongside your comment.
Contact form
When you submit our contact form, we collect your full name, email address, subject, and message. Form submissions are handled by Kadence Forms, which stores entries in our website’s database and also sends the details to us by email. This information is used only to respond to your enquiry and is not added to any mailing list or shared with third parties without your consent.
Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images that include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from any images on the site.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on the site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again next time you comment. These cookies last for one year.
Embedded content
Blog posts on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, or articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you’d visited that website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking that interaction if you have an account and are logged into that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely, so we can recognise and approve follow-up comments automatically rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
Contact form submissions are retained in our website’s database for as long as needed to respond to enquiries and for record-keeping purposes, unless you request that we delete them.
What rights you have over your data
If you’ve left a comment or submitted the contact form, you can request an exported copy of the personal data we hold about you, or request that we erase it. This doesn’t include data we’re required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Comments are checked through Akismet, an automated spam detection service. You can read more about how Akismet handles data at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Contact form submissions are sent directly to the site owner via email and stored in the website’s database; they are not shared with third parties.
