Because your privacy is important, Victor Taylor operates by these principles: Victor Taylor only requests information from you that is directly necessary in order to perform the functions required of the Victor Taylor website, and any information relating to specific services or products. Your information will never be sold by Victor Taylor, or shared beyond the services/systems used to securely store your data and deliver Victor Taylor services to you. Any of your information provided to Victor Taylor will be freely provided by you. If at any time you believe that Victor Taylor hasn’t adhered to these principles, please make contact and all commercially reasonable efforts will be made to determine and correct the problem promptly.
The personal data Victor Taylor collects and why it is collected
Comments
If Victor Taylor visitors leave comments on the site, Victor Taylor collects the data shown in a 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 a 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
Any data collected via any contact/enquiry form on the site is freely provided by the person filling and submitting the form. This data is stored solely for the purpose of responding to the person submitting the form, and for future recognition of the person’s history/relationship with Victor Taylor, to aid in providing a high standard of user support and maintaining a positive user experience.
Cookies
If you have your browser set to accept cookies, standard cookies (as used by most websites) will be stored by your browser. Cookies help to streamline your experience if you return to the website. No personal information or data is collected from you through the use of these cookies.
Cookies related to Comments, website accounts and user submitted content
Leaving comments on this site may or may not be possible because the decision to allow user comments can change from time to time on this site. However if/when commenting is possible, and you leave a comment on the Victor Taylor 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/when user accounts are available on this site, and you log in to the site, Victor Taylor 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, Victor Taylor 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 Victor Taylor shares your data with
Your data is only held by Victor Taylor, and the trusted third party service providers used to deliver services. In particular, Victor Taylor’s email delivery service provider, Active Campaign (https://www.activecampaign.com). Victor Taylor does not sell or share any of your personal data to any third party, and never will.
How long Victor Taylor retains your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so Victor Taylor can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on this website (if any), Victor Taylor also stores 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. For subscribers to any Victor Taylor mailing lists, Victor Taylor only retains your self-provided data in Victor Taylor’s mailing systems until such a time you choose to unsubscribe from particular mailing lists. If you unsubscribe from one list, Victor Taylor may still hold your information if you are subscribed to other lists, until such a time that you also unsubscribe from those lists.
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 Victor Taylor holds about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that Victor Taylor erases any personal data held about you. This does not include any data Victor Taylor is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.