This website is aimed to be compliant with The General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) which dictates how personal data are processed within countries in European Union. For more information about this regulation, visit this site.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://herbalvanguard.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Caching
This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.
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 website.
Social media
Our social media plugin sends requests to third party APIs via website-visitor’s web browser to fetch information (like social shares, social comment count). This request made by the web browser may include an IP address, which can then be seen by the third-party that it’s being requested from. This API request doesn’t include any personal data of the website user other than the IP address.
Contact forms
Using our contact form, you consent to having your personal data (e-mail and name) being used for purposes of facilitating further contact. These data are not shared with any third parties and remain for internal use only. These data are merely used for the purpose of responding to the inquiry and are not used for any marketing purposes. Your personal data are secured by Gmail service (read more Google Cloud services here).
Upon submission of a form, your IP address is also captured for the purposes of spam protection.
When visitors or users submit a form, data are retained indefinitely.
We use Google ReCAPTCHA for spam protection. Its privacy policy can be found here.
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.
Upon the visit of the website, cookies with randomly generated names and randomly generated values are saved. These cookies serve to discern spambots and search engine bots from regular users. No personal data are stored with regards to these cookies.
This privacy policy does not include all the relevant information about cookies. For more comprehensive information about how our site uses cookies, visit our cookie policy page.
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
Analytics
Our website uses third party Google Analytics service that may track our users and use cookies.
Privacy policy of Google Analytics service can be found here.
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.
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 are checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Our contact email is nick.herbalrefuge@gmail.com.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Your data are protected by WP Cerber plugin by Cerber Tech Inc.. This service protects against malware threats, hackers, trojans and spam, and offers services of personal data erasure/export.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If a data breach occurs, users will be notified within 6 days.
What third parties we receive data from
No data are received from third parties.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
This does not occur at our website.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
There are no industry regulatory disclosure requirements.
Disclaimer
The use of this website is only permitted after having read our privacy policy, disclaimer, cookie policy and terms & conditions.