Who we are
We are a UK based business and our website address is: https://www.hotenough.com
Our email address is: GDPR@hotenough.com
Your privacy is very important to us. At hotenough.com we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the 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 anonymised 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 and Newsletter sign up
Information is provided by the user, this can be by using our contact form or signing up to our newsletter which is all stored on our servers. Users can always request to opt out of our system by deleting their information at any time. The information which is stored is typically a users name and e-mail address. Link to opt out is (to follow)
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns.
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 visit our login page, 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
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.
Analytics
Hotenough.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. We may be using third party software such as Google Analytics to help us generate the best content we can for our readers.
Who we share your data with
We will be using third party software such as Google Adsense to tailor advertising content of interest to our customers visiting our free website.
Advertisements appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows advertising networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Hotenough.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
If Hotenough.com, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Hotenough.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Hotenough.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Hotenough.com is created in partnership with WordPress.com who by default do not share their data with anyone.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service such as Akismet. We will keep your sign up membership data securely on our European servers in our datacenter.
Your contact information
Hotenough.com will keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but you we will not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes. You can email us with any questions for our Data Privacy Officer at : GDPR@hotenough.com
Additional information
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Hotenough.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Hotenough.com’s sole discretion. Hotenough.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
How we protect your data
All our team are trained in data protection and we keep all our company and customer information that is necessary to provide membership, great content and customer service on our European servers in a secure data centre.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In the unlikely event of a data breach at hotenough.com we have an extremely experienced Data Protection Manager on our team who can minimise any data problems that users may potentially experience. We will only request very basic information in order to be a member of our Hotenough.com site and we will advise our users in the unlikely event of any data breach using our newsletter email system and if there is any change of procedures that may be required in this extremely rare circumstance.
What third parties we receive data from
For details about data we receive from advertisers please see the above section regarding ‘Who we share our data with’. Our content and articles are all produced in good faith referencing any quotes or ideas from the relevant sources and links are provided in each individual article to these sources. Hotenough.com does not receive any data from any of these referenced links and does not take any responsibility for the security, content or views expressed by any individual or organisation that is referenced with a Hotenough.com article in an academic way and linked to any third party website.
