This information is current as of 4th November 2020 and will be updated on a regular basis.

This page sets out the privacy policy undertaken by mikewalterz.com (the “website”).

Contact Information

Mike Walters
2 Carriere Cottage, Carriere Lane
Vale, Guernsey GY3 5QJ

07781 453731 / mike@rising.gg / mikewalterz.com

Personal Data

We receive your personal data from form submissions in order to communicate with you once you have contacted us, such personal data can include your first name, last name and email address. This website uses cookies and as such, any IP information we receive from cookies can be used for Jetpack so that we can analyse and improve our website.

Should you wish to contact us using any of the contact forms within the website, it will request some personal information from you as per the above. The personal date required (such as email address, first name) will be clearly labelled on the said contact form. By sending us an email using the contact form you hereby consent to the website collecting and storing your data from this form.

Please be advised that by contacting us via the contact forms within the website, you are providing us with consent to contact you for direct marketing purposes.

Kindly note that you have the opportunity to unsubscribe from any of our mailing lists at any time. Please refer to the ‘Personal Information’ section below for more information.

Cookies

Please review our cookies policy, courtesy of automattic.com.

Analytics

We use Jetpack to analyse web traffic, however this does not retrieve personal information about an individual.

Contact Form

Data Used: If Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.

Data Synced (?): Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission. If Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.

Google Analytics

This feature is only available to sites on the Premium and Professional plans.

Data Used: Please refer to the appropriate Google Analytics documentation for the specific type of data it collects. For sites running WooCommerce (also owned by Automattic) and this feature simultaneously and having all purchase tracking explicitly enabled, purchase events will send Google Analytics the following information: order number, product id and name, product category, total cost, and quantity of items purchased. Google Analytics does offer IP anonymization, which can be enabled by the site owner.

Activity Tracked: This feature sends page view events (and potentially video play events) over to Google Analytics for consumption. For sites running WooCommerce-powered stores, some additional events are also sent to Google Analytics: shopping cart additions and removals, product listing views and clicks, product detail views, and purchases. Tracking for each specific WooCommerce event needs to be enabled by the site owner.

Embedded Content and Third-Party Links

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.

Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites, so please review the privacy and cookie policy of each website you click through to. It is your responsibility to check the privacy notices of these external websites.

Data Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Your Personal Information

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to us or emailing us at mike@rising.gg.  As we use popular marketing automation platforms such as MailChimp or ConvertKit, there should be an option to unsubscribe from such emails at the bottom of an the email. If you can not find said button/link, please contact us directly on mike@rising.gg.

You can request access to the personal data we hold about you by contacting us at mike@rising.gg.

You have the right to tell us if you would like to withdraw your consent, correct, update or delete your personal data in our records. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.