Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: http://theholisticeducator.com. This is a website for sharing information about holistic education, and particularly the work of the holistic Ukrainian educator, Vasily Sukhomlinsky.

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 anonymised 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

We have a newsletter page where you can subscribe to ‘Sukhomlinsky News’. Your name and email address are then stored with the Mailchimp email management system, so that you can be sent our monthly newsletter. These email addresses are not disclosed to any third pary.

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.

Analytics

By default WordPress does not collect any analytics data. This site does use a Mailchimp plugin to allow subscribers to sign up for our monthly newsletter. The Mailchimp site does collect data about whether newsletters are opened, but this information is not shared with any third party.

Who we share your data with

If you subscribe to our monthly newsletter, your name and email address are stored on the Mailchimp site. We do not share this information with anyone else.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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. Our website is hosted by Bluehost, which is based in the USA and has servers in the USA and India, and newsletter subscribers’ contact details are stored on Mailchimp servers, which are located in the USA.

Your contact information

If you subscribe to our monthly newsletter, your contact information is stored on the Mailchimp website. This information is not shared with any third party.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use well established platforms for our activities. Our website is hosted by Bluehost, and our newsletter subscription service is hosted by Mailchimp. We use the Sitelock service to monitor the security of our site.

What data breach procedures we have in place

We monitor the security of our site using the Sitelock service. We will respond promptly to any data breach, and notify you if we believe data has been compromised.

What third parties we receive data from

We receive some statistical data about our newsletter subscription service from Mailchimp.

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

We do not make any automated decisions or undertake any profiling with user data.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

This website is not subject to any regulated industry disclosure requirements.