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Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://portlandbridgeswim.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:

Information submitted via our contact form is kept on file for a certain period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes or sell this information.

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.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help or check out this site for more info – http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html). Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this website but try it and see what you think. Additionally,  The About Cookies website offers guidance for all modern browsers.

Managing Cookies 

You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies and tracking here: Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics
If you want to clear all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, check the settings your browser. In addition, here are some links for downloading three programs that clean out tracking cookies:

  • http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php,
  • http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html, and
  • http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/spysweeper/

The Cookies We Set

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

  • This site uses Google Analytics – these cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit.  You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies and tracking here: Click here to opt-out of Google Analytics

Who we share your data with

  • Google Analytics
  • When you register for a swim, your registration happens via the redpodium.com website rather than through this site. We do not process or record any of your payment or registration data on this site.

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

Please contact us with any concerns about how we use your data.

Additional information

How we protect your data

Via strong password procedures, server settings, and website protections we strive to keep our site and data safe from any potential breach.

What data breach procedures we have in place

You can request that your data/contact form submission be deleted at any time.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not receive data from third parties.

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

This site does not do automated decision making or profiling.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

N/A

Additional Services used by this site:

Backup Buddy: What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Backups

Per the functionality of this plugin, backups of your website files and/or database are created and stored locally on your server and/or remotely on 3rd party servers based on the settings of this plugin. Archives can include, but are not limited to, file and database assets, including hashed passwords, 3rd party data, uploads and user information. These backups are stored to provide critical functionality of this plugin.

Cookies

Cookies are used to handle importing and restoring backups.

Plugin Settings

Some plugin settings ask for an email address or login credentials to 3rd party services. This is stored to provide functional features to the plugin.

Recent Activity

This plugin tracks dates, times and actions of successful and unsuccessful backups and remote data transfers. This is stored to help make the plugin better and assist with troubleshooting problems.

Logging

This plugin logs some personal information such as email addresses, usernames, database and server information. This is stored to help make the plugin better and assist with troubleshooting problems.

How long we retain your data

Backups

Backup retention is completely up to the website owner. This can vary from less than one minute to indefinitely.

Cookies

Cookies used during the restore/import process expire after 24 hours.

Plugin Settings

Settings are retained indefinitely until they are changed or removed manually.

Where we send your data

Backups

Backups are not automatically sent to remote destinations automatically, however backups can be configured to be sent to third-party servers.

How we protect your data

Backups

Backup zip files are stored with hashed file names to prevent filename guessing and directory browsing is disabled.

What third parties we receive data from

Backup Destinations

Backups can be sent to third-party destination servers, including but not limited to:

  • BackupBuddy Stash | Privacy Policy
  • BackupBuddy Deployment | Privacy Policy
  • Amazon S3 | Privacy Policy
  • Dropbox | Privacy Policy
  • Google Drive | Privacy Policy
  • Rackspace Cloud | Privacy Policy

Links to third party privacy policies have been included.

Akismet:

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

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