Privacy Policy
While providing useful content to you, we also take your privacy seriously. This policy explains why we collect your information, what information about you we collect, how we collect, use and manage your information. And how you can access and control your personal information.
Why we collect your information
We collect your information for these purposes:
- To communicate with you. For example, if you leave a comment on this website, we will collect the data provided in the comment form to reply to your comment. Or, if you contact us, we will collect your information such as your name and email address, and review your messages, in order to answer your inquiries.
- To protect us and our website visitors. For example, when you leave a comment on this website, we collect your IP address and browser user agent string to prevent spam.
- To improve our website and our visitors’ experience. For example, the website uses certain cookies to collect information on how visitors interact with our website, including which pages are visited most, as well as other analytical data. We use these details to improve our content, our website functions and to understand how our visitors interact with them.
What information about you we collect and how we collect it
Here are the types of information about you that we collect:
Information you voluntarily submit to the website. More specifically, when you leave a comment on the website, or contact us, we collect your information such as your email address and name, in order to reply to your comment or answer your inquiry. We will not contact you for other purposes. Please keep in mind that under no circumstance should you provide sensitive personal data, such as your health condition, criminal background to the website. If you elect to provide such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Information from cookies and other technologies. The website uses cookies to collect information on how visitors interact with the website, including which pages are visited most, as well as other analytical data. We use these details to understand our visitors’ interactions with the website to improve our content and our website functions. Certain cookies may be used or set by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, to collect information including described herein. You can access Google Analytics Privacy Policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Embedded content on this website
Articles on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images and other articles. 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. While we have no control over them, you can always get in touch with them regarding your personal information.
How we use and manage your information
Your voluntarily submitted information to this website via contact form and comment form will be stored and used to communicate with you via these channels only. After approval, your comment to a post will be visible to the public. Other information about you that are generated using cookies, such as your IP address, will be used to improve our website functions, content and our visitors’ experience. Except when required by law, we will not sell, or provide your email address or other personal information to third parties without your consent.
How long we retain your data
We only hold your information for as long as we have a valid reason to keep it. For example, if you leave a comment or contact us, your communication and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments and messages automatically, instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Security
This website uses Hostinger as its web hosting provider. Information on this website is stored in a cloud server in the United States. Hostinger has implemented security measures designed to protect the information on this website, including physical, electronic and procedural measures. Among other things, Hostinger regularly monitors their systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and regularly seeks new ways and third-party services for further enhancing the security of their services.
Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by Hostinger, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your personal information, or any other content you upload, publish or otherwise share with us.
We therefore encourage you to avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive information of which you believe its disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm.
What rights you have over your data
Depending on where you are, different rights apply. According to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area, your rights include:
- The right to be informed
- The right to rectification
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to access
- The right to object
- The right to data portability
- The right to be forgotten
For example, if you have left comments or contacted us, 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. You may submit your request to contact@chineseinbetween.com.
For other information about you, you can set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. However, if you do so, certain features of the website may not function properly.
Changes of this Private Policy
We may update our Private Policy sometimes. Please check this page periodically for updates to the Privacy Policy.
Contact us
For any questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us at contact@chineseinbetween.com.