Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.michaelpolek.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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

Our lead generation contact forms are hosted by our CRM provider, Brevo. They are located in the EU and are GDPR compliant. We use a double opt-in method to ensure that any request to store emails and other personally identifying information are intentional. They are considered a data processor for us, and your data is processed for sending emails, audience segmentation, and providing analytics to us.

We also host web forms on our own site. Your correspondence and contact information is used by us to process your request to initiate contact for coaching services, workshops, etc.

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 visit our login page, 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 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.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

We use Google Analytics to track site usage. We use Facebook and Amazon for advertising campaigns. If you enter an email address into this site, we may use it in our marketing campaigns. If you don’t want your data used in that way, please don’t enter it on this site. We care about your privacy and are 100% OK with you not disclosing information. If you do enter personal data that you want deleted, you my request such deletion (see below).

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. 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 may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

If you provide us with an email address, we may contact your for administrative purposes or for marketing purposes. You may opt out of marketing emails at any time. In your first marketing email, we may ask you to opt in. If we ask you to opt in to marketing emails and you do not consent to having your personal information used in that way, you will not receive further emails.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use a state of the art application firewall to prevent intrusion into the site. Additionally we require strong passwords and SSL encryption throughout the site.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event of a data breach detection, if your data is compromised and we have a method of contacting you (email), we will notify you within a reasonable amount of time, and no more than one week from the detection of the data breach.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not receive data from third parties other than our data processors at this time.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

None at this time.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

We are a “pop and pop” shop. We are not bound by CCPA or GDPR. Having said that, we are 100% in favor of data privacy and the point of view that your personal data is yours, not ours. We never sell your data for any reason.