Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.englishcollaborative.com. This site is owned and operated by Brooke and Hoekstra LLC, a company based in the United States of America.
Personal data
Profile information
When you subscribe, you are required to create a profile. The profile contains your username/email, password, employer name, and years of experience.
Payment information
Full credit card information or other payment data is not stored on this site. This payment data is stored securely at the gateway level on Stripe or Paypal.
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 shared on contact forms goes directly to the owners of the site; this information is not shared with any third parties.
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 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. To learn more about what cookies are and how to manage them, you can visit this site.
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
In addition to collecting some personal information, we also monitor which pages are trafficked and which resources are downloaded. This information is not shared with third parties. We use this information collected on our site to:
- Create and manage user accounts
- Improve products and services
- Send administrative information
- Respond to inquiries and offer support
- Improve user experience
- Post customer testimonials
- Enforce terms of service policies
- Protect from abuse and malicious users
- Run and operate our Website and Services
Who we share your data with
English Collaborative will not share your data with any third parties unless required to do so by tax or legal authorities.
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 using our contact form. 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 are checked through the automated spam detection service Askimet. Otherwise, data is not shared. Credit card data is securely stored at the gateway level (Stripe, Paypal, etc.).
Your contact information
All website information is stored on our site and is not shared with any third parties.
How we protect your data
All data is stored on a private server in Hillsboro, Oregon. This server uses encryption. We also protect our site with a highly reputable website security company that offers protection and monitoring.
This document was last updated on December 11, 2020.
