Who we are
This is the website of Empowered Papers.
This privacy policy sets out how Empowered Papers uses and protects any information that you give while using https://empoweredpapers.com.
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Empowered Papers may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should occasionally check this page to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective on July 28, 2019, and was last updated on July 28, 2019.
To contact us, please visit this page.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We may collect the following information:
- Contact information, such as name and email address.
- Demographic information, such as postcode, preferences and interests.
- Transactional data, such as purchase information.
- Technical information, such as cookies.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information that we think you may find interesting using the email address that you have provided.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
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.
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.
See below for additional information on cookies.
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
If you submit a question or comment through our contact form, we may collect the following information:
- Name
- Email address
- Questions and comments
We will only use this information to contact you in relation to your question or comment. We do not use the information submitted through contact forms for marketing purposes. We may store this information for up to one year for customer service purposes.
Information is stored via Flamingo. This plugin stores submission data collected through contact forms, which may include the submitters’ personal information, in the database on the server that hosts the website. See more information here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/flamingo/.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
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
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
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.
Analytics
This site uses WP Engine, a WordPress platform. See their privacy policy here: https://wpengine.com/legal/privacy/.
This site also uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic, which is currently a platform inside the Google Marketing Platform brand. We do anonymize data before storage and processing begins.
See the Google Analytics privacy policy here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en&utm_id=ad.
Google Analytics offers an opt-out browser add-on to provide website visitors the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics. You can find more information here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Who we share your data with
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
If you complete a purchase on this site via PayPal, transactional data such as purchasing information will be collected in order to complete your purchase. See their privacy policy here: https://www.paypal.com/va/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
How long we retain your data
Information from contact form entries is retained for a year, analytics records for a year, and customer purchase records for 10 years.
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.
Contact us
If you have privacy-specific questions or concerns, please send us a message here.
How we protect your data
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Other
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us.
