Socially-ish and the Privacy of our Visitors and Members
Who we are…
Our website address is: https://www.sociallyish.com.
At Socially-ish, we respect your privacy whether you’re a first-time Visitor or a dedicated Member. We do collect information from you, but our policy is to ensure that all personal information remains private to the extent that Members and Visitors wish it to remain private. To earn your trust and confidence in the Internet and in Socially-ish, we are disclosing our privacy practices and the uses of the information we gather.
To protect your privacy, Socially-ish:
Will use personal identifying information about you in a manner consistent with this Privacy Notice.
Will not knowingly collect personal identifying information from children under 13 or knowingly use such information without express parental consent.
As you may know, Socially-ish serves as an Internet and web hosting provider, and an advertising source. Socially-ish does not always operate or control the individual Web sites we service. Advertisers may have their own privacy and content guidelines or restrictions. Socially-ish does not always operate or control what appears on the Web sites.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Notice, please feel free to contact us.
We protect the privacy of our Search Engine Optimization Affiliates, Resellers and Clients.
SECURE INDEPENDENCE’S COLLECTION AND USE OF GENERAL INFORMATION FROM MEMBERS AND VISITORS
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
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
Socially-ish collects information from all Visitors to our site, including IP address, operating system, and browser software. Using your IP address, we can determine your Internet Service Provider and your geographic location. This information reflects the population as a whole rather than focusing on individuals, and we use it to identify portals and other areas on our Web site and evaluate the effectiveness of our promotional activities.
We also use this information to perform statistical analyses of collective characteristics and behavior, so we can measure overall Visitor demographics and interests regarding the Site.
Socially-ish does not collect the e-mail addresses of people who communicate with us via e-mail; we use the addresses only to respond to them.
SECURE INDEPENDENCE’S COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION FROM ITS MEMBERS AND VISITORS
Personal identifying information includes:
Home or other physical address
Phone number
Any other information that identifies a specific individual
Any information which, when tied to the above listed specific information, can identify a specific individual.
We collect information at various locations throughout the site. We give notice at each location that asks for personal identifying information, and such information will be used only for the purposes stated at the location of the collection, and/or within this Privacy Statement. When we collect personal identifying information, you will always have the choice of whether or not to provide it. However, you may not be able to receive certain of Socially-ish’s services without providing the information requested.
We use this information for administrative and other purposes that we believe are necessary to maintain, improve and enhance our services. Such uses include data transmission, surveys of our Members, sending e-mail messages to all of our Members.
Socially-ish fully cooperates with law enforcement agencies in identifying those persons who use our services for illegal activities, and we reserve the right to release personal identifying information about Members when we believe our services are being used unlawfully even without a subpoena, warrant or court order.
We do not control the actions of our Members or Visitors. If you disclose personal information to others, it may be collected and used by others. Socially-ish does not assume any responsibility for actions of those other parties.
SECURE INDEPENDENCE DOES NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN
We believe that it is especially important to protect children’s privacy online.
Note: Socially-ish defines children as minors under the age of 13 years.
We do not knowingly collect any personal identifying information from children.
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
MEMBERS ABILITY TO CHANGE/REMOVE INFORMATION
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.
If, at any time you would like to find out the information Socially-ish maintains about you, or change or delete any information within Socially-ish’s active database simply contact us.
If you leave Socially-ish, we may delete your information from our active database. Residual information will remain within our archived database and records.
All Members and Visitors should be aware that, when they disclose personal identifying information to others, the information may be collected and used by others to send that person unsolicited e-mail from other parties, outside Socially-ish. If you encounter any Socially-ish Member who is improperly collecting or using information about users, please contact us.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
SECURITY OF INFORMATION COLLECTED BY SECURE INDEPENDENCE
Information collected by Socially-ish is stored on secure servers and access is limited to authorized personnel only.
OUTSIDE PARTY COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION
Please be aware that Socially-ish does not control the acts of its Members or Visitors. All Members and Visitors should be aware that, when they disclose personal information, on their Web site or elsewhere on the site, the information might be collected and used by others. Additionally, Members should be aware that when they link, or click on ad banners, they might go to other sites not operated by Socially-ish. These outside parties may have different privacy policies from those of Socially-ish. If you are asked to divulge personal identifying information at any point outside Socially-ish, please be aware that privacy policies other than Socially-ish may apply to the collection and use of that information. Socially-ish does not control and does not assume any responsibility for any actions of third parties.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Notice please contact us.
Thank you for your interest in Socially-ish and our program!
