Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://patrickmichaelboudoir.com
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.
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 websit
Contact forms
When you send us a message through our contact form, a user account will be automatically created on our site.
When you submit a message to us, we keep the following data:
1. Email address
2. First name
3. Last name
4. Phone number
5. Content of any messages that you send to us
This allows us to reply to the message that you’ve sent us through via e-mail and/or phone system.
You will never received marketing related messages by contacting us through our contact form unless it specifically relates to the message that you’ve sent us.
Please note that the message you send is private and only available to team members at Patrick Michael Boudoir.
Signing Up to Our Newsletter
On this site, we display various forms that allow you to sign up to our newsletter. When you sign up through one of our forms, we’ll commonly ask you for the following data:
1. Name
2. Email address
We’ll also collect the following:
1. Which form you filled out
2. Referrer URL (the URL that you led you to the page that you signed up through)
3. Your IP address
We store this data on our site for the following reasons:
1. Compliance – to keep a record of where our leads came from
2. Testing – to optimize and improve the newsletter sign up forms that we display
3. Relevance – we try not to show a form that you’ve already signed up for
The data that you submit is also added to a third party service called Mailchimp. This is a tool that we use to send email communications to you.
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.
Cookie Use for Retargeting
We may use the DoubleClick advertising network and Google Analytics as well as other advertising networks to display ads across the Internet, based on your visit to our website.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may show our ads on sites across the Internet. Our site and third-party vendors, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize and serve ads based on past visits and pages visited on this website.
Our site as well as third-party vendors may use third-party audience data to further optimize advertisements displayed.
You can opt-out of this kind of advertising anytime, here and here.
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.
Who we share your data with
The following third parties have limited access to some of your data: Google Analytics (privacy policy)
We use Google analytics to gain an overview of how our site is being used, how to improve user experience, what content to create and similar decisions all focused on improving the experience for our visitors.
We also integrate Google Analytics with Google Adwords so that we can measure the performance of our paid advertisements.
We use Facebook conversion tracking to understand how our Facebook ads are performing.
Some of the content on the site includes social sharing widgets to quickly allow you to share content with your network. We currently use Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. Some of these services gather data about you, if you are logged in to these social networks while visiting our website. Please see the privacy policies of the social networks for further information.
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.
E-Commerce
Those who engage in transactions with Patrick Michael Boudoir – by purchasing Patrick Michael Boudoir services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Patrick Michael Boudoir collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Patrick Michael Boudoir. Patrick Michael Boudoir does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Patrick Michael Boudoir may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Patrick Michael Boudoir's sole discretion. Patrick Michael Boudoir encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
