Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.paulcostelloe.com.

What personal data we collect

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

If you submit the contact form on our website, we will receive your details via email and we will store your details for as long as deemed necessary in order to deal with your request.

Cookies

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.

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.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, text files which are stored on your computer and which allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the cookie concerning your use of this website is transferred to and stored on a server operated by Google in the USA. In case the IP anonymisation is activated on this website, Google will shorten your IP address within the Member States of the European Union or other Contracting States to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be sent to Google in the USA and then shortened. On behalf of the operator’s website Google will use this information to evaluate your usage of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide other services related to the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transferred by your browser within Google Analytics will not be linked to any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate setting on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore you may refuse the collection of data regarding the use of the website (including your IP address) generated by the cookies as well as the processing of the data by Google by downloading and installing the available browser plugin. Find out further information on Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

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

If you sign up to our Newsletter, via the Newsletter sign up form or by selecting the option when submitting our contact form, we will store your name and email address within Mailchimp. We will use Mailchimp to send you the occasional communication via email.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the Unsubscribe functionality within Mailchimp.

Notification of changes

Paul Costelloe reserves the right to change this privacy statement without notice. It is the responsibility of users to check this privacy statement regularly.