PRIVACY POLICY

Who We Are

At https://shockinguntoldtruths.com, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of all visitors to our website. In particular, we want you to know that https://shockinguntoldtruths.com is not in the business of selling, renting or trading email lists with other companies and businesses for marketing purposes.

In this Privacy Policy, we’ve provided detailed information on when and why we collect personal information, how we use it, the limited conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure.

We take your privacy seriously and take measures to provide all visitors and users of https://shockinguntoldtruths.com with a safe and secure environment.

 

What Personal Data We Collect And Why We Collect It

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help only for 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.

When comments are submitted, you are entitled to use aliases or information that completely hides your identity. When a comment is submitted, the relevant details (name, email, website) that you provide are stored.  These details are stored so that we can display your comment back to you, and to anyone viewing the comment sections on the site. We do not verify the information entered nor do we require verification.

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 keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing 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

Our site is connected to Google and Bing Webmaster tools. We specifically use Google Analytics, which is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic.

When someone visits https://shockinguntoldtruths.com we use Google Analytics, a Third Party, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns. We do this to track things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site and interactions with the site. This information is processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of visitors to our website.

To provide website visitors the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics, Google developed the Google Analytics opt–out browser add-on for Google Analytics. You can use this tool if you have concerns about Google Analytics.

To read more about Google Analytic’s Privacy Policy, please follow this link; https://policies.google.com/privacy

 

Who We Share Your Data With

By default, we do not share any personal data with anyone. The only exception can occur, when you decide to use your credit card, or any electronic online payment device, to purchase any product or services sold on our site. This is the only moment where the providers of such payment devices will access your personal information for your own security, to ensure that you actually own the payment device.

In the event of new development, this policy will be updated accordingly.

 

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

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.

 

Our Contact Information

For any privacy-specific concerns, send relevant requests to [email protected]

 

Additional Information

We have set in place (or will be setting up in the future), some email subscription forms to our various newsletters and these forms have recently been updated for GDPR compliance.

Our newsletter subscription forms are purely optional, as they expressly request your permission, and the decision to provide your personal details is absolutely under your control.

If you ever decide to leave your personal information in our subscription forms, your data will be treated with confidentiality, and will only be used to provide you with recent updates in the relevant sector. We do not rent or trade email lists with other organizations, businesses or individuals.

You also have the absolute free will to unsubscribe from any of our newsletters at any time. This option will be included in all our emails sent to you.

We use a third-party provider, SENDPULSE (any changes will be reported), to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter.

For more information, please see SENDPULSE (any changes will be reported) privacy notice. You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails.

 

How We Protect Your Data

Our site has the following technical security measures put in place to protect your data:

SSL Certificate

This website, https://shockinguntoldtruths.com is SSL protected. SSL Certificates provide secure encrypted communications between a website and an internet browser. They ensure that the sensitive information you provide to our site is protected. Our Encrypted Connections keep your data safe.

Website Security

Our Website Security Package monitors our database, Malware & Viruses, Filesystems, Hacking and Intrusion, on an ongoing basis. Rest assured that any personal data you provide to our site is protected by one of the best security technologies online.

Spam Blocker

Our Spam Blocker happens at the server level and blocks ALL automated comment spam before it even hits our site. Your data is perfectly safe from any spamming attempts.

Automatically Generated Sophisticated WordPress Passwords

Our website platform is designed in such a way that passwords to our WordPress sites are automatically generated, comprising a mixture of symbols, letters, and numbers. These secure passwords are technically impossible to hack, and we are often encouraged to use them because of their guaranteed strength. Your personal data you exchange with our site will be technically impossible to access as well.

Automatic Update Of WordPress

We receive regular updates on WordPress, meaning that our site is always running on the most recent and updated version of WordPress.

 

What Data Breach Procedures We Have In Place

In addition to security measures listed above, there is an Available Competent Technical Support team of experts working all round the clock to attend to any issues pertaining to overall website security, as well as overall website performance. Any anomalies noted on our sites, especially, security-related issues are solved with urgency, even on Sundays. Our Competent Technical Support Team is operational 24/7/365. It is the best support we’ve ever come across online.

 

What Third Parties We Receive Data From

Our website does not currently receive data about users from third parties such as advertisers or third-party data providers.

In the event of new development, this policy will be updated accordingly.

 

What Automated Decision Making And/Or Profiling We Do With User Data

Our website does not currently provide any service which includes automated decision making. We do not allow customers to apply for credits, neither do we aggregate their data into an advertising profile.

In the event of new development, this policy will be updated accordingly.

 

Industry Regulatory Disclosure Requirements

We are not currently a member of a regulated industry, neither are we subject to additional privacy laws.

In the event of new development, this policy will be updated accordingly.