What’s a Privacy Policy?
A Privacy Policy is a critical page on your website that outlines legal notices, disclaimers, and details how you collect, use, and protect visitor and user information.
With increasing concerns about personal data security and privacy, having a Privacy Policy in place is essential. This document not only helps you comply with privacy laws but also builds trust with your users by being transparent about your practices.
The GDPR and Data Protection
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU 2016/679) is a regulation in EU law that governs data protection and privacy within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). It also covers the transfer of personal data outside of the EU and EEA.
If your website collects any personal information (such as names, emails, payment information, etc.), GDPR requires that you clearly state how that data is used, stored, and protected.
Whether your website operates in the EU or interacts with users in the EU, ensuring your site is GDPR-compliant is essential for both legal reasons and user confidence.
Why Do I Need a Privacy Policy?
Without a Privacy Policy, you risk facing legal complications. Your website must clearly communicate to visitors what personal information you collect, why you collect it, how you use it, and how you protect it.
If you don’t already have a Privacy Policy, we can help you create one that’s tailored to your website’s needs. For those with corporate or legal concerns, it’s a good idea to consult with your legal counsel to ensure compliance with privacy laws.
Additional Considerations
ADA Compliance: We recommend incorporating ADA compliance and accessibility statements into your Privacy Policy. These legal disclosures will help ensure your website is accessible to users with disabilities and meets necessary legal standards.
Legal Lines: Including a legal line in your Privacy Policy about the ownership of the site and disclaimers will add a layer of protection for your business.
ADA Compliance
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
We make every effort to ensure our sites are available and usable. To that end, we pursue industry best practices, and make every effort to comply with guidelines set forth.
The WCAG was established by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), The WCAG 2.0 (published 12/11/2008) supercede and are recommended over WCAG 1.0 (released 5/05/1999).
We are committed to making our website accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. Our goal is to provide an accessible website that conforms to Section 508 Guidelines and the World Wide Web Consortium’s Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA.
We continue to make every effort to test the website and to remove barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from interacting with or accessing information made available on our website. If we become aware of content that does not conform to the WCAG 2.0 Level AA standards, we will make reasonable good faith efforts to make the content conform to the standards. We cannot control or correct problems with these third-party sites, but please let us know if you encounter difficulty with the sites we link to so we can pass the information along to the owners of those websites. You may also want to address your concerns directly to these third parties.
While this policy does provide the standard for individuals with disabilities to access Web-based information, this policy cannot anticipate every accessibility need, due to known limitations of existing technology. There may be other circumstances, independent of technology that may limit the accessibility of The Center’s websites.
While we strive to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website, particularly as it relates to content by third parties. We are not responsible for ensuring that third-party content, software/tools, widgets, Add-ins, Plugins, APIs, etc., which are not owned by us, but are otherwise located on or linked to our websites, conform to WCAG 2.0 Level AA, and shall not be liable if they are inaccessible to individuals with disabilities.
Disclaimer: This information is intended to provide helpful information. They are in no way a substitute for actual legal advice based upon your unique facts and circumstances.
This content is not intended or offered, nor should it be taken, as legal advice. You should always consult with your own professional advisors (e.g. attorney, accountant, insurance carrier). To the extent ADA has included links to any third party web site(s), ADA intends no endorsement of their content and implies no affiliation with the organizations that provide their content. Further, ADA makes no representations or warranties about the information provided on those sites.
We are web designers and developers, making every effort to make websites that everyone can use.
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Our Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://greendev.com
GreenDev is a brand created, owned, and managed by Longbow Strategic Group, Inc.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Security Logs
The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. This information is retained for 30 days.
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. Note: this site does not support comments.
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. Note: this site does not support avatars, nor use the Gravatar service.
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
We use a plugin to manage contact form submissions. The information is sent as email messages that only a select few are allowed to access. The information is also stored in the database on our hosting server for backup and later reference purposes.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Analytics
We store user input data sent through the contact forms on this website, along with meta information about the submissions, including the time stamp, the origin IP address, and the user agent (browser). Also, third party services may collect information about website visitors. We use Google Analytics and Search Console on this website.
Who we share your data with
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.
This site may be scanned for potential malware and vulnerabilities by Sucuri SiteCheck. We do not send personal information to Sucuri, however they could find personal information posted publicly (such as in comments) during their scan. For more details, please see Sucuri privacy policy.
Security logs are retained for 180 days.
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.
The only people who may have an account on this site is the site owners and their partners.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Security Logs
The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. This information is retained for 60 days.
Who we share your data with
This site is scanned for potential malware and vulnerabilities by Sucuri SiteCheck. We do not send personal information to Sucuri; however, Sucuri could find personal information posted publicly (such as in comments) during their scan. For more details, please see Sucuri privacy policy.
How long we retain your data
Database backups are sent via email. You may need to note what the retention policy is of those emails. Note that you may be required by some regulations to ensure that past personal data erasure requests are respected even in the event of restoring a backup of the site. You may need to set up an internal policy to ensure that previous personal data erasure requests are respected after restoring a database backup.
Accessibility
We are committed to providing an accessible website. If you have difficulty accessing content, have difficulty viewing a file on the website, or notice any accessibility problems, please contact us to specify the nature of the accessibility issue and any assistive technology you use. We will strive to provide the content you need in the format you require.
We welcome your suggestions and comments about improving ongoing efforts to increase the accessibility of this website.
If you have issues on our site, please contact us and help us improve.
Contact Info
GreenDev is a brand created by Longbow.net that shows a different set of web offerings.
Longbow Strategic Group, Inc.
POB 120022, Melbourne, FL 32912-0022
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