You may like to know how we collect certain information or data about you and other visitors to our website when you use https://thomasnyman.fi.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Browsing behavior
When you visit pages on the site we collect a record of your browsing behavior, including your IP address freely transmitted to our web servers by the your router, and your browser user agent, as freely transmitted by your computer. This includes the browser build information, the device type of the computer and the computer’s operating system. We collect this information to monitor the performance of our web servers, in order to ensure continued service, and to be able to respond to events that may adversely affect the availability or security of this website.
Comments
When you 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.
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.
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.
It’s important to note this privacy policy specifically covers the thomasnyman.fi domain only. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party sites. Please ensure you have verified the privacy policies on any external websites before submitting personal information.
Where we store your data
We only store data with our hosting provider Flywheel. Flywheel is a voluntary participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (“EU Framework”), which you can learn more about at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield site at https://www.privacyshield.gov. As a participant, Flywheel is subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and any other authorized U.S. agency.
How long we retain your data
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to provide the services you have requested and thereafter for a variety of legitimate administrative purposes. Records of browsing behavior are retained for thirty days.
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.
Data security
Due to the open nature of the Internet, transmitting data to Flywheel must only be done via approved data transmission channels. We will endeavour to ensure your data is transmitted to us using the known best practice approaches, including utilisation of encryption where appropriate. It’s important to note, any data you send to us is sent at your own risk.
Once your data is received, it will be stored within the Flywheel data environment. We follow generally accepted standards to store and protect the personal data we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored.
Disclosing your information
We will only pass on the personal information collected if we have a legal obligation to do so. We will not share your information with any Third Parties not listed on our privacy policy.
What rights you have over your data
Visitors who have left comments on this site, can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about them, including any data they have provided to us. Visitors can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about them. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You may contact us by one of the methods described in the “Contact us” section below for requests to receive or delete any personal data we hold about you.
Changes in our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy and any other places we deem appropriate, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Contact us
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy, our practices or our services, you may contact us by email at privacy@thomasnyman.fi
