Who I Am
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which kylepollard.com collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users of the https://kylepollard.com website. This privacy policy applies to the Site and all products and services offered by kylepollard.com.
The policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read my privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how I collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with my website.
Contacting Me
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact me using the information below.
Kyle Pollard
9609 South University Blvd
Littleton, Colorado 80163
United States
kp@kylepollard.com
(720) 544-7124
You can also contact me using the contact form on my website: Contact.
1. What personal information do I collect from the people that visit my blog, website or app?
I may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit my site, register on the site, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources I make available on my Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, phone number. Users may, however, visit my Site anonymously. I will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.
2. How I use collected information
Kylepollard.com may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes:
- – To improve customer service Information you provide helps me respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
- – To personalize user experience I may use information in the aggregate to understand how my Users as a group use the services and resources provided on my Site.
- – To improve my Site I may use feedback you provide to improve my products and services.
- – To run a promotion, contest, survey or other Site feature To send Users information they agreed to receive about topics I think will be of interest to them.
- – To send periodic emails I may use the email address to respond to their inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
3. Non-personal identification information
I may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with my Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to my Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.
4. Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by the kylepollard.com firewall and security software. This information can include the IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, website security, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Loschaos website.
5. Rights to 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 I hold about you, including any data you have provided to me. You can also request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data I are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Visit this page to request a Copy of Your Personal Data or to file a request to Delete Your Personal Data: Data Access Request.
After you make a request a verification email will be sent to your address of record with kylepollard.com. You must respond to this verification email before any requests will be processed. If I have questions regarding your request I will contact you using your email address of record.
6. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site I 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.
7. Email Communication
Kylepollard.com does not maintain a mail list. I do not send unsolicited email to site visitors. If you contact me via my published email address or reach out to me using my contact page, I will email you back in response.
8. How Long I Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. If you choose to delete your personal data any comments you have left on the site will be made anonymous.
I retain any email correspondence and information submitted to kylepollard.com using my contact form for one year unless the email or contact form info submitted is of a dispute or legal nature in which case I will keep the dispute related or legal related correspondence until the dispute or legal issue is resolved.
9. Embedded content from other websites
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
10. Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that my web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of my plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
11. Akismet
I collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use my Akismet anti-spam service. The information includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
12. How I protect your information
I adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on my Site.
Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site and its Users happens over an SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures.
My website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to my site as safe as possible.
I conduct nightly Malware Scanning.
I employ a Classless Inter-Domain Routing Access Manager Protection system.
Firewall and proactive network security management are in place.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
I implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
13. Sharing your personal information
I do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others.
Kylepollard.com may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on kylepollard.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of kylepollard.com; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of kylepollard.com, or the public.
14. Cookie Policy
The kylepollard.com website uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize kylepollard.com pages, or register with kylepollard.com site or services, a cookie helps kylepollard.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Cookies also provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. When you return to the kylepollard.com website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can efficiently use the kylepollard.com features that you customized.
You can accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically allow cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the kylepollard.com services or websites you visit as this may cause parts of websites not to function correctly. If you do prefer to disable cookies on kylepollard.com the most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. I suggest consulting the help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers. Specific guidance on how to set your computer to reject cookies is on this page: How to Control Cookies.
15. Third-party disclosure
I do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.
16. Third-party links
Users may find advertising or other content on my Site that link to the sites and services of my partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. I do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from my Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to my Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.
17. External Data Storage Sites
I store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom I have contracted. Your data is stored on a database/website servers located at Hostgator in the United States.
18. Data Breach Procedures
Any data breaches of personal data of a sensitive nature will be reported via email addresses registered to the site within 72 hours.
19. Google Analytics
kylepollard.com anonymously tracks the pages my users visit within kylepollard.com using Google Analytics, a service which transmits anonymized website traffic data to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate their IP address with any other data held by Google. I use reports provided by Google Analytics to help me understand kylepollard.com website traffic and webpage usage. Google Analytics places cookies on your computer as the service cannot function without the use of cookies. The cookies placed on your computer by Google Analytics will record your activity on kylepollard.com and are sent to Google to produce the analytical reports mentioned in the previous sentence.
To provide website visitors the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics Google developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to block the Google Analytics JavaScript code. If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your web browser. The Google Analytics opt-out add-on is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Firefox, and Opera. In order to function, the opt-out add-on must be able to load and execute properly on your browser. For Internet Explorer, 3rd-party cookies must be enabled. Learn more about the opt-out and how to properly install the browser add-on here: Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
20. Social Sharing Widgets
Kylepollard.com uses social sharing widgets that allow you to share content from Loschaos on your social networks. We use the following widgets:
Facebook Share:
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” my web pages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” my webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
Twitter Share:
We use a Twitter Tweet widget on my website. As a result, my website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet my web pages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
GooglePlus Share:
We use a GooglePlus widget on my website. As a result, my website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share my web pages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Pinterest Share:
We use Pinterest Save widget on my website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from my web pages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Linkedin Share:
I use a Linkedin Share widget at my website to allow you to share my web pages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
21. California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. – See more at http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf
According to CalOPPA, I agree to the following:
Users can visit my site anonymously.
Once this privacy policy is created, I will add a link to it on my homepage or at a minimum, on the first significant page after entering my website.
my Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:
• On my Privacy Policy Page
You can change your personal information:
• By emailing me or using my contact page.
Does my site allow third-party behavioral tracking?
It’s also important to note that I do not allow third-party behavioral tracking
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
22. CAN SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
kylepollard.com does not maintain a mail list. I do not send unsolicited email to site visitors. If you contact me via my published email address or reach out to me using my contact page, I will email you back in response.
Last Edited on May 28, 2018