Who we are (we are the wave)
Our website address is: https://waveofinfluence.com. You know that though, ’cause you’re here.
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. Well, we personally don’t, but some bots do. They eat up those IP addresses and agent strings like popcorn.
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. You can use one of their funky icons though if you don’t want your picture posted.
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. Although if you can find a way to upload images to this site, you’re already one step ahead!
Cookies
Not the yummy kind. No sweet, sweet scent of baking snickerdoodles here, just the sneaky kind. It’s just the way of the internet. 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, unlike the baked kind, those would be nasty after a 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.
OK – seriously – “we” won’t, but the bots that have taken over the running of things behind the scenes will.
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. Just kidding, there’s no way to log in here, but there will be in our app – stay tuned for that, it’s going to be cool.
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. Again – you’re not posting, so no worries.
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. Yep – those sneaky trackers – and we don’t control them. Just to be clear – you’re on the internet – a looooong line of 0s and 1s that make up everything we perceive as being real, but it’s not, it’s pictures and pixels and tricks of light. Maybe it’s time for a walk outside.
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.
Who we share your data with
“We” share it with no one, we’re pretty into privacy around here. But these other bots, the ones from the other websites and all that, well, we can’t vouch for them. They seem to be everywhere. Which is why when you go shopping for orange juice online, you get five ads for orange juice in the next 2 minutes. Tracking – it’s a thing.
And if you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Again, “we” or not trying to do this at all, apparently it lingers here, for quite a long time, and if you got really sassy and became a troll, well, we might just try to track you down through your IP address. But otherwise, we really want nothing to do with privacy invasion over here. But just so you know, if you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Yada yada yada.
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. This is not going to happen. I don’t think it is anyway, because we’re not having people login. If we do, we’re going to have to change this statement a little bit, aren’t we?
What rights you have over your data
In the grand scheme of things, we don’t have a lot of rights over our data anymore. We also don’t have a lot of rights with personal privacy. Have you seen the drone flying over the beach? Should that be a thing? Unfortunately, it is. We can have that discussion at the summit.
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. I don’t believe any administrators here are keeping your information. But we have to put that anyway just in case. You know how it goes.
Where your data is sent
Personally, “we” send it nowhere. Although, we do have a Spam detecting service because there are a lot of people out there posting too many rude things quite honestly, and these services are helpful. However, you need to know that visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service, and goodness only knows what they’re going to do with your information from there. Because we don’t.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this privacy policy. I don’t believe anyone’s going to read it, but if you do definitely go to the contact pages and be a message and I will send you a heartfelt thank you. Even though I deal with the justice system every single day, apparently I find my fun in jacking up privacy policy. Because honestly, I have done this to every single one. Does it negate its legality? Hoping to God we never have to find out.