Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 1, 2024

Thank you for visiting algaeplus.shop. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information.

Information We Collect

When you visit our website, we may collect certain information about you, including:

  1. Comments: When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help with 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.
  2. Media: If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included, as visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from the images.
  3. Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies 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. Additionally, when you log in, we will 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, which includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Use of Your Information

We may use the information we collect from you for the following purposes:

  1. To provide and maintain our website and services.
  2. To personalize your experience on our website.
  3. To improve our website and services.
  4. To respond to your comments and inquiries.
  5. To send you promotional emails, newsletters, and other marketing communications.
  6. To protect the security and integrity of our website.

Sharing Your Data

We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:

  1. With service providers who assist us in operating our website and providing our services.
  2. With our business partners and affiliates for marketing and analytics purposes.
  3. With law enforcement agencies, government officials, or other third parties when required by law or in response to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process.
  4. With third parties in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets.

Data Retention

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 who 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 (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Your Rights

If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you have the following rights:

  1. You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
  2. You can 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.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we make will be posted on this page, and the revised version will be effective immediately upon posting.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at dean@algaeplus.us.