Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: http://pastelwasteland.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 anonymised 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 website.

Contact forms

When you contact us through a form, we will only see the information you have provided in the contact form. This will never be sold, and won’t be passed on without express permission. The information you send will only be stored in the Pastel Wasteland inbox, we don’t extract the data for any reason. If you’d like us to delete the information you send us after reading it, please let us know either within the form text or by sending us a message.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Analytics from this website are only stored within the WordPress Analytics area in our admin area. We don’t use or extract this information, and we only look at it to judge how well our content is doing. No information in excess of what is required (as above) is provided within these analytics.

Who we share your data with

We do not share data with any third parties, but you must check the websites of any content we embed, as they may behave differently (as described above). We do not currently have advertising on the blog, so any information collected will only be with reference to your time on the website, as explained under the other headings on this page. When we eventually start advertising on the site, these policies will be updated as needed.

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 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.

If you have opted-in to receiving emails, this data will be retained for as long as you are a subscriber. You can opt-out of these messages at any time, through the Unsubscribe link, or by emailing us to request a removal.

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.

PASTEL WASTELAND

Laburnum Grove, Portsmouth, PO2 0HE

+44 (0) 7765 013 646 (contact number for matters of privacy only)