Privacy

Your privacy is safe with me.

I do not knowingly collect anything from visitors to this site except for the analytics thing below.

If somehow there is info collected, I don’t know how to find it, save it, share it, exploit it, look at it, make fun of it, or any other activities that a person could do with privacy. Even if I knew how, I don’t want to. If you are concerned that something happened with your privacy and this website, please contact me and I will do what I can to convince you of how unlikely that could be.

Google analytics puts a little graph on my dashboard. Here’s its privacy policy.

Affiliate Links

Giant online retailer kicked me out of the affiliate program because they said they haven’t heard from me in too long. I had no idea I was supposed to keep in touch and further have no idea how that was supposed to look. To the best of my knowledge I have removed all affiliate links.

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Who we are

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

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.

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 your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet Anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically 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).

MailPoet newsletter & emails

If you have subscribed to our newsletter or if you are a member of our website (you can log in) or if you have purchased on our website, there is a good chance you will receive emails from us.

We will only send you emails which you have signed up to receive, or which pertain to the services we provided to you.

To send you emails, we use the name and email address you provide us. Our site also logs the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system.

This website can send emails through the MailPoet Sending Service. This service allows us to track opens and clicks on our emails. We use this information to improve the content of our newsletters.

No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.

We use the WP Statistics plugin to analyze traffic on our website. WP Statistics stores its data on our own server and does not transmit it to any third parties. Below, we describe what information we collect through WP Statistics, why we collect it, and how it is handled. If you have questions or concerns about our analytics practices, please contact us or review the WP Statistics Data Privacy guide.

We do not collect or store any information that can identify you personally. This means:

• No Cookies: We do not set tracking cookies or similar identifiers in your browser.
• Anonymized IP: Your IP address is anonymized and securely processed (e.g., hashed) so it can’t be reversed to identify you.
• Aggregated Statistics: We only track general activity like page views or country of access.
• Local Storage: All data is stored locally on our server; we never share it with third parties.