Honestly Not A Robot!

Who we are

Our website address is: www.honesltynotarobot.com and it’s subdomain Honestlynotarobot.com.comics

Though this is a webcomic website, the site and the plug ins used do collect data and cookies to keep the site functioning.

I do use the Matomo Analytics plug in that collects basic data and you do have the option to opt out.

For the purposes of this website it is used to see where people have come from and when.

Quote sourced from Matomo about their service:

Matomo Analytics is privacy by design… no other business (or Matomo team member) can access any of this information, and logs or report data will never be sent to other servers by Matomo . The source code of the software is open-source so hundreds of people have reviewed it to ensure it is secure and keeps your data private.

Opt-out complete; your visits to this website will not be recorded by the Web Analytics tool. Note that if you clear your cookies, delete the opt-out cookie, or if you change computers or Web browsers, you will need to perform the opt-out procedure again.

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

You are not opted out. Uncheck this box to opt-out. You are currently opted out. Check this box to opt-in.

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What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments – This is what DISQUS handles:

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.

Super Socializer – Social Login

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

We use Disqus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using Disqus commenting system. Disqus may collect information about you when you register for and use the Service. Such information may include “Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that identifies you as an individual, such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, telephone number, username or account ID, and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that does not identify you as an individual. Non-Personally Identifiable Information may include, but is not limited to, information about your browser, your IP address, device ID, what pages you visit on our Partner Sites, which website you came from, what advertisements you clicked on, whether on our Partner Websites, the Service or other third party websites, and other information about your online activity that does not identify you as an individual, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy

We use GooglePlus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using your GooglePlus account. From this interaction Google automatically collects and store certain information in server logs like IP address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

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.

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.

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.

(This is standard for websites, it’s just a catch all if you see for example, a video link in an author’s note and click though, that the outside website may collect data from you to use the video site.)

Social sharing plug in – does it track any data?

As outlined at their GDPR page: http://support.heateor.com/gdpr-and-our-plugins/

“We do not track any user data via our plugins. But if our plugin depends on any third party service, they might track user data. This can happen in following two ways:”

1. Embedded Widgets

“Some of our plugins have features to integrate embedded widgets as is, from third party services (like Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Twitter Tweet official buttons). You can include relevant text in the privacy policy of your website as mentioned below.”

2. Third-party APIs/Connections

“Our plugins send request to third party APIs via website-visitor’s web browser to fetch information (like social shares, social comment count). This request made by web browser may include IP address, which can then be seen by the third-party that it’s being requested from. This API request doesn’t include any personal data of the website user other than the IP address.  “

Where is the data collected by your plugins stored?

“We (social sharing) do not store any data fetched by our plugins on our servers, neither we share that data with any third party. Our plugins run absolutely on your website and store the data in the database of your website.”

Do your plugins load any external scripts?

“As mentioned before, our plugins run absolutely from your website and hence load the scripts too from your website with exception of third-party embedded widgets (like Facebook Like/Recommend official button, Twitter tweet official button, Facebook Comments) which require our plugin to load scripts from the servers of relevant service.” 

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.

Basically, the social sharing plug in and WordPress itself holds the metadata and comment indefinitely as each comment is subject to site moderator approval and/or to be checked for spam via a third party plug in.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a 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.

Akismet plug in, via Jetpack, scans the email addresses used when commenting in order to check that there’s no spam content before awaiting approval. There’s GDPR policy form that’s before the comment post that says what they do.

Everything else, as mentioned previously, goes through the Social Sharing plug in and the third party accounts that you log in with.

Your contact information

Left a comment before Disqus?

If you wish to have your comments and personal data (email is the main one gathered for comments posted before Disqus integration) removed from the site under compliance with GDPR, please send a formal email request to Honestlyrobot @gmail.com

For any disqus comments submitted after I moved to hosting Disqus, requests can be made to Disqus to remove your data on their servers as I can only delete the comments, not the entire data their end. But i will be happy to delete comments by your request if asked.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If any of the plug ins that hold your data through comments disclose any breach of data to me, I will disable the affected plug ins and remove your data/comments from the site. Hopefully they should contact each affected party that it’s happened but I shall do so as well for clarity.