Who we are
Your privacy is very important to us. At West Hants Historical Society we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
West Hants Historical Society operates a primary website at the address https://westhantshistoricalsociety.ca, and on occasion may include project or campaign websites in addition to our primary website. It is West Hants Historical Society’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, West Hants Historical Society collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. West Hants Historical Society’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how West Hants Historical Society’s visitors use its website. From time to time, West Hants Historical Society may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
West Hants Historical Society also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. West Hants Historical Society only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to West Hants Historical Society’s websites choose to interact with West Hants Historical Society in ways that require West Hants Historical Society to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that West Hants Historical Society gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive West Hants Historical Society updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, West Hants Historical Society collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with West Hants Historical Society. West Hants Historical Society does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
West Hants Historical Society may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, West Hants Historical Society may monitor the most popular pages on the westhantshistoricalsociety.ca site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. West Hants Historical Society may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, West Hants Historical Society does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
West Hants Historical Society discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on West Hants Historical Society’s behalf or to provide services available at West Hants Historical Society’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using West Hants Historical Society’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. West Hants Historical Society will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, West Hants Historical Society discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when West Hants Historical Society believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of West Hants Historical Society, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an West Hants Historical Society website and have supplied your email address, West Hants Historical Society may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with West Hants Historical Society and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. West Hants Historical Society takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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.
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.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, West Hants Historical Society may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in West Hants Historical Society’s sole discretion. West Hants Historical Society encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.