Who we are
Our website address is: https://mikesnead.com.
Please use this site only if you are comfortable with the following. This website or author makes no guarantees regarding your privacy. With the best intentions, the following policy statements are truthful and followed.
European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation
This site is located in and maintained in the United States of America. It is intended for access from within the United States. While the following privacy information is provided to inform visitors to the site what privacy policy is in place and, to the best of our intentions, followed, the website and the author do not necessarily adhere to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Visitors are advised of this fact and, should this not be acceptable, should not access the site. With this privacy policy, the website and the author have attempted, in good faith, to cover all of the bases relevant to protecting your privacy. The primary purpose of this website is to enable a visitor to download information they may be interested in viewing. The site is not intended to gather visitor information, engage in discussions with visitors, or sell anything.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
Comments on this site have been turned off using a WordPress plugin. All past comments have been permanently discarded. No record that we are aware of has been maintained of who previously posted comments.
Contact form
A contact form, provided by a WordPress plugin, may be provided as a courtesy to enable a site visitor to contact the site’s author. This contact form requires a name, email address, topic, and message. The use of this contact form is entirely a voluntary act of the visitor. Completing the contact form sends this information via an email to the site’s author. The author may choose to ignore, delete, retain, and/or respond to each message. The author may choose to forward the content of your message to others or post to social media. The contact information (name, email, topic, and message) is likely retained by the WordPress plugin in a database. If this is happening, this information will likely be retained indefinably with this website’s other operating databases. Other than for the purpose of sending the visitor’s message to the site’s author, this information is not otherwise used or provided to anyone by this this website or the author. As the collection of this information is automatically handled by a WordPress plugin, this website or author does not control how this information may otherwise be used, collected, retained, or distributed. If needed, this information will be provided to law enforcement agencies.
Email notification of new postings
This site may make available the option for a site visitor to signup their email address to enable them to be notified by email of new site postings. Completion of this signup requires a second step to verify the email address by receiving and acknowledging a verification email. These two steps are entirely voluntary. Further, each notification email includes a link to unsubscribe from further notifications.
A WordPress function is used to automatically collect these email addresses and send out notifications. The email address is retained within a WordPress operating database associated with this website. This information is retained indefinitely. Even if a person unsubscribes, it is probable that the email address is retained. This database of email addresses is only used by this site to automatically send out notifications. This website or the author does not otherwise make use of this database or distribute the database to others.
Cookies
This site does not use cookies or other tracking means other than what WordPress and WordPress plugins and themes may use to track the number of visitors, enable visitors to use the site (e.g., subscribe), improve the visitor’s experience, and deter or prevent illegal attempts to login in or penetrate this site. A message is intended, using a WordPress plugin, to be included on the initial visitor enabling the visitor to accept the use of cookies and, to a limited degree, control their use.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
All visitor data collected by visiting this site, including using the contact form and using the email subscription service, is not shared with anyone by this website or author. As these features are WordPress functions and plugins, what WordPress or theme or plugin authors may use this information for is unknown to the website or author and beyond the control of the website or author. The website and author are not aware of such information being used for other than the intended purposes of using the site, handling a contact request, distributing notification emails, and preventing attempts to abuse or penetrate this website. This information is not used for marketing. Should the need arise due to illegal or abusive actions directed at the website or author, such information may be made available to law enforcement agencies or private individuals or companies to address the illegal or abusive actions.
This website or author only may access any database holding information from visitors and those that use the contact form or email notification service to maintain the proper operation of the website.
What rights you have over your data
This website or author does not export any retained visitor data and does not respond to requests in this regard.
Where we send your data
If necessary due to illegal or abusive actions, your data may be sent to law enforcement agencies or private individuals or companies to address the illegal or abusive actions.
Site contact information
The author may be contacted using the contact form if this is provided.
How we protect your data
This website is hosted by BlueHost. Only standard WordPress functions are used to protect this website’s data. This website or author does not take any additional actions to protect this data.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If a data breach becomes known, a posting will be made to the website.
What third parties we receive data from
Data is not received from any third party beyond that received automatically by the WordPress operating system and the host company to manage the operation of the website.