Who we are
Our website address is: http://www.evrophoto.com
My name is Evan Robinson. I’m a retired software engineer, manager, project manager, and I guess entrepreneur, as I’ve worked for myself for a lot of my adult life. Companies I’ve worked directly for include Electronic Arts, Adobe, Amazon, and the Apple Store. I’ve contracted with Electronic Arts, AT&T/The ImagiNation Network, the Internet Chess Club, 3DO, and others.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Contact forms
TO BE DONE
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
Analytics services in use include: Google Analytics (which apparently includes Google Ads even though I’m not running them) and MonsterInsights. The relevant policies of those services are:
Google Analytics Privacy Policy
Monster Insights Privacy Policy
Who we share your data with
It is never our intent to share your data with anyone. Analytics systems (once one is chosen and put in place) operate without our knowledge of their algorithms and we believe on faith they are being honest with us. Our hosting service will have access to any data you provide via this website. Any email you send to us will pass through multiple servers and we have no control over what happens to your email in transit. Every server may be backed up and your data may be preserved in that backup. The NSA may be monitoring all web traffic.
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.
Contact form information comes to us via email. Any email may be retained indefinitely and may be backed up by automated systems both related to this site and related to the computers of anyone who receives that email directly or as forwarded or otherwise included in any message. Those backups and backup systems may not be under our control.
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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
TO BE DONE
Additional information
How we protect your data
If I am looking at your data it’s on my personal machine, so it is as well protected as my data is. There are no guarantees, but I assure you I don’t want my personal data out there.