Who we are
We are a couple interested in sharing our travel experiences with friends, friends of friends, family, and those folks interested in cruising the PNW by way of their own hull. Our website address is: https://awesomecatamaran.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our 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.
Contact Forms
If you complete our contact form, we capture the information you submitted, namely name, email address, and comment content. We keep this until we get a chance to adequately reply as possible, but we do not use the information submitted for marketing and we do not sell your information to anyone. It’s just us replying to you at your request, if you took the time to reach out.
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 edit or publish an article (to be fair – no one can do that on our website right now except us), 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We have the following plug-ins running on our website: Google Analytics for WordPress (which provides us with how visitors find and use our website), VaultPress (which provides us with security scanning), and Akismet Anti-spam (self-explanatory). Their latest privacy policies should be available on their individual websites.
Source: Askimet
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).
Who we share your data with
We do not share your data with third-parties and either does WordPress.
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 left comments, 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
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact information
For any privacy-specific concerns, please use the following email: jamie_seattle@yahoo.com.
How we protect your data
We protect data submitted to our website via two factor authentication secured access and by nature of the size of our administrative authorship – there are only two of us. Also, there is a certain level of protection in our laptops being constantly surrounded by water when we’re aboard our vessel, so we’ll claim that as a medieval form of protection: the modern-day moat. Now, privacy is nothing to joke about – we take it very seriously. It is only our genuine desire to comply with international privacy policy rules and regulations that compels us to aptly describe the reality of our small blog and the reasonable steps we take to secure the entire website including what information you’ve shared in comments or on our contact form.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In the unlikely event that we have and subsequently identify a data breach, we’ll let you know via the email you shared with us.