Secret of the Vine Privacy policy

Secret of the Vine has established this privacy policy to explain to you how your information is protected, collected and used, which may be updated by CraigslistSoftware from time to time. Secret of the Vine will provide notice of materially significant changes to this privacy policy by posting notice on the Secret of the Vine site.

Who we are

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

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.

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.

Your contact information

  • All blog postings are stored in our database, even after “deletion,” and may be archived elsewhere.
  • Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely.
  • All payment information is stored permanently and will be used and released in the event of a chargeback for collection agency purposes.

Circumstances in which Secret of the Vine may release information

  • Secret of the Vine will not be releasing any information to any agency about anyone unless customer is notified first by email.
  • Secret of the Vine will release, in the event of a chargeback for collection agency or fraud prevention purposes, all payment information including but not limited to home address and phone number.

How we protect your data

  • We don’t share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
  • We don’t engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs with other sites.
  • We don’t employ tracking devices for marketing purposes (“cookies”, “web beacons,” single-pixel gifs).
  • We don’t send you unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.
  • Account information is password-protected. Keep your password safe.
  • Member’s areas use basic webserver authentication. Close your browser to log out.
  • Secret of the Vine does not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 13.
  • Secret of the Vine, or people who post on Secret of the Vine blog, may provide links to third party websites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited.

What data breach procedures we have in place

We do not store any payment information or archive credit transactions on our servers. Our payment processor is solely responsible for your financial transactions, logs, records and security.

Our SSL protects you from wireless snoopers by encrypting all data passed back and forth to and from our website, and that of our payment processors.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

  • We sometimes collect your email address, for purposes such as sending self-publishing and confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, registering for forums, etc.
  • We sometimes collect your phone number for account authentication purposes.
  • Secret of the Vine does not store credit card information.
  • We may collect personal information if you provide it in feedback or comments, post it on our Blog or interactive forums, or if you contact us directly. Please do not post any personal information on Craigslist Software’s forums or Blog that you expect to keep private.
  • Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served, including your IP address, page URL, and timestamp. Web logs help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the CraigslistSoftware site, combat piracy, fraud and to otherwise provide our service to you.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

  • By visiting our web site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that due to the international dimension of Secret of the Vine we may use the data collected in the course of our relationship for the purposes identified in this policy or in our other communications with you, including the transmission of information outside your resident jurisdiction.
  • By providing us with your data, you consent to the transfer of such data.