Privacy Policy: WHO WE ARE

Our website address is: https://thesmartmonk.com.

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their Personally identifiable information is being used online. 

Personal identifiable information, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. 

Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personally identifiable information in accordance with our website.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog?

  • By sharing your e-mail address when subscribing to our newsletter.
  • By sharing personal information when submitting your requests and more to us or by via our Contact Form or Feedback Form.
  • By sharing personal information when you post comments on our posts.
  • By sharing contact information through contact us form. 

In addition to basic contact information, our analytic trackers may also collect other information. 

This may include the operating system you are working on the internet browser you are using, and the screen resolution of your computer.

How do we use your information?

The email address you provided through our subscription form enables us to send you daily updates of our posts.

The email address that you use when contacting through our contact form will not be used for any reason but for the purposes of responding to your inquiry

Cookies, this site does not use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information.

Third Party Links

We can allow third party link  in guest post or in the comment box.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

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 may be provided to the gravatar service to see if you are using it. The gravatar service privacy policy is available here. 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 & 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.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content. 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 and 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, 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. 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 up

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.