Privacy Policy

Who are we?

https://oliviabillington.com.

You can contact us via the contact form or at the address contact[at]oliviabillington[dot]com

Use of personal data collected

Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The privacy clauses of the Gravatar service are available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After validation of your comment, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Contact form

Messages sent via the site’s contact form arrive in the email inbox indicated above, and then are archived, without a determined duration, as traditional emails. A copy of each email is also saved by the site itself for a maximum of 3 years. Sending a message via the form requires a name and an email address. The user’s IP address is also recorded to prevent unwanted messages.

Newsletter registration

Newsletter registration requires the user to provide their email address, and possibly their first name. This information is used to send emails via the automated MailerLite system. This automated email sending service allows for statistics (non-anonymized) on the opening of these emails (date and location of opening, browser used, type of device used (computer, tablet, smartphone), and on the clicks on the links they contain. These statistics allow for the removal of subscribers who no longer seem interested in our newsletter.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is only for your convenience so that you do not have to enter this information if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be automatically deleted 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 preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check « Remember me », your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

Content embedded 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 same way as if the visitor were visiting that other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, track your interactions with such embedded content if you have an account connected to their website.

Statistics and audience measurements

This site uses the WP Statistics extension.

Use and transmission of your personal data

Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on sites using Akismet, our spam detection service. The information collected depends on the Akismet settings made by the user on the site and generally includes the IP address of the commenters, the user agent, the referrer, and the URL of the site (as well as other information provided directly by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and their comment).

Storage duration of your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This allows for the automatic recognition and approval of subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our site, we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can see, modify, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site managers can also see and modify this information.

Your rights over your data

If you have an account or if you have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we have about you, including those you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of personal data about you. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Transmission of your personal data

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

How we protect your data

Your data stored on the site itself is protected by the WordPress structure, as well as by the Wordfence security extension. In addition, the site is encrypted via the HTTPS protocol.