Privacy Policy

Who we are

Hi, we are Living Trees Press based in Raglan, New Zealand

Our website address is: https://www.livingtreespress.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.

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

Emails from Contact forms are used for the purposes of replying to the inquiry and will be deleted once the inquiry has been satisfied. We do not store information generated from ‘inquiries’ as leads

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 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.

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.

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.

Credit card information

We use Stripe to process payments. No credit card information is accessible to our site at any time.

Who we share your data with

We will disclose personal information to the following recipients, only as much as required to fulfill our operational requirements or legal obligations :

  1. Service providers who assist us in connection with the ways we use personal information (as set out above), in particular: website hosting providers;, technical customer support services; payment processing services
  2. our professional advisers (lawyers, accountants, financial advisers etc.)
  3. regulators and government authorities in connection with our compliance procedures and obligations;
  4. a third party to respond to requests relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity;
  5. a third party, in order to enforce or defend our rights, or to address financial or reputational risks;
  6. a rights holder in relation to an allegation of intellectual property infringement or any other infringement; and
  7. other recipients where we are authorised or required by law, or requests by government, a court of law, or law enforcement authorities, to do so.

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, 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.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We store personal information on reputable hosting service providers who guarantee secure servers. Personal information that we store or transmit is protected by security and access controls, including username and password authentication, and https transfer protocol.

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