1. Who We Are We are Openhearth Unleashed. If you have any questions about this policy or your personal data, you can contact us using the details below:
- Address: 2 North Kirklands, Eaglesham Road, Glasgow, G76 0NT
- Email: bark@openhearth.scot
- Contact Form: You can also reach us using our contact form (which will be live soon).
2. Information We Collect and Why
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data entered in the comments form, alongside the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. This helps us detect and prevent spam.
- Gravatar Integration: An anonymized string (or hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you use it. Once your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment. You can read the Gravatar Privacy Policy here.
3. Analytics (Google Analytics) We use Google Analytics to monitor and analyze website traffic to help us understand how visitors engage with our site.
- Google Analytics collects data such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and the pages you visit. This information is anonymized and aggregated to help us improve our website’s design and content.
- Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can learn more about how Google handles your data by reading the Google Privacy Policy.
- How to Opt-Out: If you do not want your data to be collected by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
4. How We Use Cookies We use cookies to improve your experience on our website and to track website analytics.
- Analytics Cookies: As mentioned above, Google Analytics sets cookies to track user behavior and site performance.
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you do not have to re-enter your details next time. These cookies last for one year.
- Login & Session Cookies: When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, cookies are set up to save your login information (lasting two days) and your screen display choices (lasting one year). If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
- Publishing Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, a cookie containing no personal data will be saved to indicate the post ID of the article. It expires after one day.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, or other articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you had visited the other website directly.
These third-party websites may collect data about you, use their own cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged into their website.
6. Data Sharing and Automated Processing
- Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
- Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service before they are published.
- Analytics: Non-personally identifiable website usage data is shared with Google Analytics (see Section 3).
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
- Registered Users: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username). Website administrators also have access to view and edit this information.
- Analytics Data: Data collected via Google Analytics is retained according to our settings within the Google Analytics platform.
8. Your Rights Over Your Data If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you have specific rights regarding your personal data:
- Request an Export: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
- Request Erasure: You can ask us to erase any personal data we hold about you.
- Please note: This does not include any data we are legally, administratively, or securely obligated to retain.