Who we are

Our website address is https://highfiberthoughts.com. This policy explains what information we collect from visitors, why we collect it, and what you can do about it.

Newsletter

If you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your email address [and your first name, if you ask for it] so we can send you new posts and occasional updates. We will only email you about things related to High Fiber Thoughts, and we will never sell your email address or pass it to anyone for their own marketing.

Our newsletter is run through Mailchimp, a service owned by Intuit. When you subscribe, your email address is stored on Mailchimp’s servers in the United States, and Mailchimp processes that data on our behalf. Mailchimp also records standard activity such as whether an email was opened or a link was clicked, which helps us understand what readers find useful. You can read how Mailchimp handles this data in its privacy statement at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.

Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. You can use it at any time to remove yourself from the list, and we will stop emailing you. You can also ask us to remove you directly using the contact details below.

Topic submissions

If you send us a topic idea or suggestion by email, we receive your email address along with whatever you choose to include in your message. We use this only to read, consider, and reply to your submission. We do not add submitters to the newsletter list unless you separately ask to join, and we do not share your submission or your email address with anyone else. We keep submission emails for as long as they remain useful and delete them when they no longer serve a purpose.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, which help with spam detection.

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 our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These exist for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.

[If you keep an analytics tool on the site, describe its cookies here. See the notes below.]

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, or other posts. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited that other website directly.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking it if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We share data only with the services that help us run the site:

• Newsletter email addresses and related activity are processed by Mailchimp, as described above.
• Comments may be checked through an automated spam-detection service [such as Akismet] to filter out spam.

We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it for anyone else’s marketing.

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.

If you subscribe to the newsletter, we keep your email address until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove it. Topic submissions sent by email are kept only as long as they remain relevant.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments or subscribed to the newsletter, you can ask us for an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, and you can ask us to erase that data. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Newsletter subscribers can also unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send.

Where your data is sent

Comments may be checked through an automated spam-detection service. Newsletter data is processed by Mailchimp on servers in the United States, so if you subscribe from outside the United States, your email address will be transferred there.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about this policy or want to exercise any of the rights described above, you can reach us at andrew.h@highfiberthoughts.com