Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://globalpragmatica.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.

Except that we think we stopped accepting comments a few lifetimes ago when we realized that spambots trying to hack WordPress left 98% of them and it was just too annoying to keep fighting that war.

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.

Contact forms

If you choose to email us regarding potential projects or pro bono services, you end up in our email archive forever or until operating system updates like the one to Catalina (ugh!) mess up the email archive, but we’re too busy to bother spamming you. We send a newsletter of sorts almost never. Twice, maybe? If you ever get an unwanted gibberish email from us, it was probably sent by one of the office cats. If that email appears to be written in Finnish, it was Ragne. She apologizes.

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.

Since none of these cookies are edible, we don’t actually care about them in the least. They’re just WordPress noise to us. Let us know when gingersnaps are ready.

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

Once in a while we remember that we should look at page view stats, and after a few minutes of being annoyed by WordPress, we forget about it again.

Who we share your data with

Nobody. Ever. Unless the office cats have a side hustle they haven’t mentioned.

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 (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, please let me know how that happened. If you 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. But frankly, since we don’t intentionally collect any of this stuff, we’d have to go digging around to look for it, and we’d rather be doing almost anything else than digging around in WordPress.

Where we send your data

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

Your contact information

Inquiries may be directed here.