This website is written and managed by Laly York. This website address is: https://neurodivergent.blog. This privacy policy describes how Neurodivergent.blog uses and protects any information that you give to it. The author is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If you provide this website with personal information through Neurodivergent.blog, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
What personal data is collected and why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, it collects the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. The visitor’s email address is added to a list, so that they can receive a notification when their comment has been approved. Visitors may unsubscribe at any time.
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. 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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on this 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 visit our login page, the site 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, the site 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.
Paid Memberships & Payment Processing
When you purchase a membership to access exclusive content, we collect your name, email address, and billing address. This data is strictly used to create your member account, manage your subscription status, and prevent fraudulent transactions.
Your payment details are processed directly by our third-party payment gateway, Stripe. We do not store, view, or collect your credit card details on our servers. The payment information you provide is given directly to Stripe, whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. Stripe adheres to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council. Stripe’s privacy policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com.
Email Communication & Notifications
We use your email address for two primary purposes:
- Account Administration: To send essential transactional emails, such as password resets, membership renewal confirmations, and billing receipts.
- Content Marketing & Updates: With your consent, we use MailPoet to send email notifications regarding new blog posts, site updates, or community news.
You can update your communication preferences or unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the “unsubscribe” link found at the bottom of our emails. Administrative account emails cannot be opted out of as long as your membership remains active.
Free Downloads
The information you submit to obtain a free download will be added to this website’s list of subscribers, which is managed with MailPoet. You can update your preferences and/or unsubscribe at anytime.
All rights for free downloads are reserved. No part of the document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, faxing, e-mailing, posting online, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the Publisher.
How long your data is retained
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so this website can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on this website, the site also stores the personal information they provide in their user profile indefinitely to maintain their membership access. 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 this site holds about you, including any data you have provided to us.
You can also request that the author of this website erase any personal data the site holds about you. This does not include any data the author is obligated to keep for administrative, operational, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.