Privacy Statement

Our Identity

Our website URL is: https://www.painterslink.com.au.

Personal Data Collection and Purpose

Feedback

When users post comments on our website, we gather the information displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection.

A hashed version of your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you use it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is made public in relation to your comment.

Images

If you upload photos to the site, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors to the site can download and extract this location information from images.

Contact Forms

Cookies

When you comment on our site, you may choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies. This convenience feature prevents you from having to re-enter your details when making another comment. These cookies last for one year.

Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This temporary cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we set several cookies to save your login details and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days, while screen options cookies last for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends your login for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.

Editing or publishing an article will store an additional cookie in your browser, which simply indicates the post ID of the edited article and expires after one day.

Embedded Content from External Sites

Articles on this site may feature embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.). This embedded content behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the external site.

These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, incorporate additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking if you have an account and are logged in to the external site.

Data Analytics

Data Sharing

Data Retention Period

Comments and their metadata are stored indefinitely. This enables us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.

Your Data Rights

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request 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 delete any personal data we hold about you, except for data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Transfers

Visitor comments may be reviewed by an automated spam detection service.