Privacy is important. We understand and respect it. So know your privacy is important to us.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://portsandborders.com/
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which portsandborders.com collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the https://portsandborders.com/ website (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to the Site and all services offered by portsandborders.com
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
This Site collects a minimum of personal data. More on this below.
Email List
This Site allows visitors to sign up for a mailing list called “Free Weekly Email” by providing an email address. To sign up, users will need to enter their email address into one of the sign up forms on this website and then click the “Sign Up” button after which they will be sent to a page where they will confirm their subscription. The confirmation procedure is put in place to further be sure that the site has the subscriber’s clear consent to send him or her emails via the email list.
The email address you provide is used to send you email related to the Site’s content and purpose. You can unsubscribe by clicking an unsubscribe link in any of those emails.
Contact forms
This Site uses a WordPress plugin for the contact form on the Contact Page of this website. When visitors fill the contact form on the Site, we collect the data shown in the contact form (Name, Email, Subject of Message and Message), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
This plugin does not store any of the sent messages on our webserver or in a database. The message is instead sent to our email inbox at Gmail and its period of retention is at the discretion of the site owner.
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
For convenience purpose, if you leave a comment on this Site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
This Site uses dedicated security software that uses cookies to protect this website from attacks and malicious activity.
Who we share your data with
Ads
Ads appearing on this Site may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Google Adsense
Some of the ads may be served by Google. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to a website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to the site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings — Also, you can opt out of third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Read further to learn How Google uses data when you use our sites or apps.
Analytics
Google Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics to better understand what people look at when they visit the website.
Google Analytics collects first-party cookies, data related to the device/browser, IP address and on-site/app activities to measure and report statistics about user interactions on https://portsandborders.com/
When someone visits the site then information about their visit such as what pages they looked at, how much time they spent on those pages and what country this visitor is browsing the site from is is sent in an anonymous form to Google Analytics.
This data only contains information about anyone who is browsing this website from your computer and there is no way to identify a specific individual from this data.
Measures have been put in place to ensure no personally identifiable information is ever contained within the data sent to Google Analytics.
Most importantly to note is that since analytics information is not personal data, this website do not specifically ask for your prior consent.
Read more on how this data is used.
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.
The retention period for data collected by Google Analytics (that is associated with cookies, user identifiers, or advertising identifiers) is twenty-six months.
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
This site uses a spam detection software. Your comments may be checked through the automated spam detection service.
What third parties we receive data from
As earlier mentioned, this site allows visitors to sign up for a mailing list called “Free Weekly Email” by providing an email address. The third-party that powers this service for our website is called “MailChimp.
We receive data about email list subscribers from MailChimp.com that hosts all of our email lists. Such data could for example be what emails a particular and subscribed email address has opened or how long they have been subscribed to that a certain email list.
Additional information
Security of your data on our website
This website is HTTPS compliant — meaning the data we collect is encrypted. To break this down, this website is secured with SSL encryption, which means that all traffic to and from our servers is encrypted. The encryption cuts across the administrative access to the website.
On our criteria for selection of third party service providers, we made sure we only use providers with known and tested secure systems and processes. We also keep the number of third-party providers at barest minimum.
Your acceptance of these terms
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not in any way agree to this policy, please do not use this Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Contact information
To contact PORTS & BORDERS – about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please send us an email by using the contact form on the site’s Contact page.