Who We Are
Our website address is: https://rufus-harris.com.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It
Your email address and your physical location is all that we request when registering on this website. Your IP address may be used for geolocation purposes during and after the registration process. Only Administrators has the ability to approve or deny requests for the registration process.
For users that successfully register and get approved on our website, we will store the personal information you provided in your user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Administrators can also view and edit the information in the user profile that you have provided.
Profile Data
When you register for access to the community encompassed in this site, you may be asked to provide certain personal data for display on your profile. The “Name” field is required. User profiles are visible to any site visitor. Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the Administrators.
Your user information provided during account registration can be modified or removed (except for your username) on the Profile > Edit panel. In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility on a field-by-field basis to friends, logged-in users, or the Administrators only. Administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users.
Activity
This site records certain user actions, in the form of “activity” data. Activity data includes updates and comments posted directly to activity streams, as well as descriptions of other actions performed while using the site, such as new friendships, newly joined groups, and profile updates.
The content of activity items obeys the same privacy rules as the contexts in which the activity items are created. For example, activity updates created in a user’s profile is publicly visible, while activity items generated in a private group are visible only to members of that group. Site Administrators can view all activity items, regardless of context.
Activity items may be deleted at any time by users who created them. Site administrators can edit/remove any activity items.
Private Messages
The content of private messages is visible only to the sender and the recipient(s) of the message. With the exception of site administrators, who can read all private messages, private message content is never visible to other users or site visitors. Site administrators may delete the content of any message.
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.
Also, you accept full responsibility for any media that is copyrighted and posted to this site. This website does not take any responsibility on media uploaded to your account profile.
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 visit our login page, 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.
We use a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, and joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data and are deleted immediately after the next page load.
We use cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data and are deleted after 24 hours.
When a logged-in user creates a new group, we use a number of cookies to keep track of the group creation process. These cookies contain no personal data and are deleted either upon the successful creation of the group or after 24 hours.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave 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
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Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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, 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 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 (disabled currently) may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your Contact Information
Your email and your physical location is all that we request when registering on this website. Your IP address may be used for geolocation purposes during and after the registration process.
How We Protect Your Data
This website is secured by a multi-tiered firewall as well as highly secured password protection for the administrator account(s). However, we cannot take responsibility for registered users who do not have highly secured passwords to login to their account. Lastly, the posts/comments that you leave on this website can be copied from any post by another registered user. Please remember that when you are posting. We take no responsibility for data that you share with the other users of this website.
What Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place
If a data breach should ever occur, you will be notified via your registered email address of the circumstances of the breach and the recommended course of action.
What Third Parties We Receive Data From
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What Automated Decision Making and/or Profiling We Do with User Data
Other than during the initial registration process, we do no such profiling after your successful registration is reviewed by the Administrator of this website.
If a registered user becomes verbally abusive to other users, they will be reminded by an Administrator once to keep it professional or they will be permanently banned from this community. A no tolerance policy will be strictly enforced, and the abusive user will not be missed from this community website.