Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.theclassyclown.com
As a small business owner in the United States, we seek to collect only the data needed to make your website experience as easy and pleasant as possible. We do not collect information to sell it or provide it to any third party for the purposes of advertising, making money, etc. We are shoppers and browse websites too, and we prefer not to gather unnecessary data because, frankly, it just adds one more bit of administrative oversight to an already challenging business environment. We try to get this right and hope that you will feel comfortable frequently visiting our site.
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. Spam is a major headache and administrative cost for any website.
An anonymised string created from your e-mail 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. We do not collect or use the data in your images, but it is a good practice for you to always examine your photos before you submit them to this or any website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, e-mail 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.
If you submit an order to our store, data is collected by our site and by PayPal to ensure you have the right to purchase and to control our inventory. We retain actual orders for 36 months and temporary cart information for up to one week. That data collection is necessary for the security of the site and is not shared with anyone other than those with Web Administration rights to the site. We have no control over what PayPal collects/retains and you can visit their website if you have any questions about their policies.
If you ignore/dismiss the cookie notice that appears on any page, we will assume that you have opted in to the cookie usage.
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
Who we share your data with
Apart from the necessary sharing that takes place in creating and processing orders, and the data mentioned above, we do not share your data intentionally with anyone. We do not engage in the practice of selling our customer or visitor data to anyone.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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 request that their personal information be deleted. This request will not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. You cannot change your 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.