22nd May 2018

Privacy Notice and Cookie policy Rituals Today

Version 24th May 2018

By law, I need to inform you how I am using your personal data: why I collect them, what I do with them, how they are being stored and protected.

When you visit my website, fill in a contact form or add a comment to a blog post, personal data will be collected. The information below explains what happens to these data.

Please note: the below only applies to data collected through my website. When I start working with you on a ceremony I will inform you specifically on how I use and save data related to the ceremony.

What personal data I collect through my website and why I collect them

1. Comments

When you leave comments on my website I collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised 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 is the picture you might have next to your name). The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

2. Comment likes

In order to process a comment like, the following information is used: WordPress.com user ID/username (you must be logged in to use this feature), the local site-specific user ID (if the user is signed in to the site on which the like occurred), and a true/false data point that tells us if the user liked a specific comment. If you perform a like action from one of our mobile apps, some additional information is used to track the activity: IP address, user agent, timestamp of event, blog ID, browser language, country code, and device info.

3. Blog: post likes

In order to process a post like action, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID (on which the post was liked), post ID (of the post that was liked), user agent, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

4. Contact forms

If you use a contact form to send me a message I will use your name, email address and any other contact details provided by you (for example phone number, Skype name) to reply to your message. I will use your contact details for any follow-up communications and, if we work together on a ceremony or ritual, to liaise with you. I will not use these details for marketing purposes and will not share them with third parties, unless the law supersedes this requirement. You contact details will be safely stored.

5. 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. More information about cookies can be found below in ‘Cookie Policy’ section.

6. 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: WordPress.com stats

Hosted by JetPack. Data used: IP address, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: As the site owner I do not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, I can see that a specific post has 285 views, but I cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs – containing visitor IP addresses – are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.

Activity tracked: post and page views, video plays, outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.

How long I retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

What rights you have over your data

If you 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 me. You can also request that I erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data I are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where I send your data.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Concerns, questions or feedback?

Please contact me via the contact form or rosalie@ritualstoday.co.uk


Cookies policy

I use cookies on my website (the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.

The below Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how my website use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognise you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How my website uses cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioural advertising. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

What are your choices regarding cookies

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.