Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 2024-03-18

Welcome to SOFTAutomator, located at https://softautomator.com (the “Site”). We acknowledge the significance of online privacy to users of our website.

This privacy policy governs all content available on the Site and its associated properties.

This statement also governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site (“Visitors”) who visit or subscribe/register and make use of the Services offered (collectively, “Services”) by the Site.

References to “us,” “our,” “we”, or “I” in this document pertain to SOFTAutomator | https://softautomator.com.

This page informs “Visitors” of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) when using our Services.

In this Privacy Policy, when we mention Personal Information, we are referring to Device Information, Comment Information, and Email Information.

Please familiarize yourself with this Privacy Policy before engaging with this Site or any of its Services. By utilizing this Site and its offerings, you affirm your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with its terms and policies, kindly refrain from utilizing the Site or its Services.

Before proceeding to any page on this site, kindly review the privacy policy. Your continued use of our Services at SOFTAutomator | https://softautomator.com implies your acceptance of these policies.

Information Collection

When you visit or subscribe/register to use our Site or its Services, we may collect or request certain Personal Information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include, but is not limited to, details such as your name, email address, optional website, and location. We utilize your Personal Information to furnish and improve our services. By engaging with the Services, you agree to the collection and utilization of information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Non-personally identifiable information, such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser and operating system types, and visited web pages, may also be collected from the Site visitors through various methods:

Comments

Visitor comments are reviewed through an automated spam detection service. Upon visiting the Site, you are prompted to provide consent regarding the information we may gather. This could encompass details about your device, web browser, IP address, location, time zone, and certain cookies stored on your device. Moreover, as you navigate the Site, we compile data concerning the specific web pages you visit, the referring websites or search terms that led you to the Site, and your interactions with the Site. This automatically collected data is referred to as “Device Information.”

When visitors leave comments on the Site we collect the data shown in the comments form, including Name, Email Address, and Website (Optional). The visitor’s Avatar, IP Address, and browser user agent string are also collected to help with spam detection.

When a visitor submits a comment only the visitor’s Name, Avatar, Date Submitted, and Comment Contents will be published.

An anonymized string, known as a hash, derived from your email address may be transmitted to the Gravatar service to determine if you have an associated account. The Gravatar service’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture/Avatar will be displayed publicly alongside your comment.

Any Personal information a visitor shares in blog post comments on this Site or on social media platforms is visible to other users and may be read, collected, or used by others. This Site bears no responsibility for Personal information that a visitor shares in blog post comments on this site or social media platforms that is visible to others. Visitors should exercise caution when disclosing Personal Information in such forums.

Depending on the granted consent, we may collect Device Information using various technologies:

Media

If you upload images to the Site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Site can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Cookies are data files placed on your device or computer, typically containing an anonymous unique identifier. For detailed information on cookies and how to disable them, please refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

If you choose to leave a comment on our Site, you have the option to consent to saving your Name, Email Address, and Website in cookies. These cookies are crafted for your convenience, eliminating the necessity to re-enter your details when leaving subsequent comments. They will remain active for one year.

When you access our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to ascertain if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and will be discarded once your browser is closed. Upon logging in, we will establish multiple cookies to retain your login details and screen display preferences.

Login cookies remain valid for a few days, whereas screen options cookies persist for a year. Opting for the “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.” feature will keep your login session active for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.

Log Data/Web Server Logs:

They monitor activities on the Site, capturing data such as your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and visit timestamp, viewed pages, time spent on the site, and previously visited and subsequent websites may be gathered through cookies and web server logs. Advertisers and ad-serving companies may also use technology to assess ad views and user responses.

Furthermore, when you leave a comment on the Site, we gather specific details from you, including your name, email address, IP address, and optionally, your website URL. This set of data is denoted as “Comment Information.”

If you opt-in to the Site mailing list, we will collect your email address and IP address, with your name being an optional addition. This set of data is termed as “Email Information.”

Web Beacons, Tags, and Pixels:

These are electronic files employed to record your browsing behavior on the Site.

IP Addresses:

Your IP address, a numerical identifier for internet-connected computers, may be collected to diagnose server issues, administer the site, customize content, measure site traffic, and fulfill user requests.

How We Utilize Your Personal Information

The Site does not share, rent, or disclose your personal information to third parties without your prior consent, except as outlined in this privacy policy.

Your personal information may be utilized within the Site and related websites for various purposes, including transaction processing, communication, site improvement, enforcement of legal terms, protection of the Site and its stakeholders, and for other purposes indicated in our privacy policy.

Additionally, non-personally identifiable information may be utilized for site analysis, enhancing site design and content, delivering targeted marketing, personalizing user experiences, and providing products and services. In certain instances, IP addresses may be used to identify users for the enforcement of legal terms or protection of the Site and its stakeholders.

Comment Information

We employ comment information to distinguish and identify you from other commenters, respond to your comments, and engage in communication with you.

Email Information

Email information is utilized to communicate with you and furnish you with updates pertaining to our newly published content.

Device Information

The data we collect aids in screening for potential risks and fraudulent activities, particularly through your IP address. Additionally, it assists us in enhancing and optimizing our Site. For instance, we generate analytics to understand how users browse and interact with the Site and evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising endeavors.

Your information is not traded or shared. Given that our site lacks any commercial functionalities, you won’t receive any commerce-related communications from us.

Analytics Statistics:

Our analytics system collects data such as IP addresses, WordPress.com user IDs and usernames (if logged in), user agents, visiting and referring URLs, event timestamps, browser languages, and country codes. However, the site owner does not have access to this information. For instance, they can see the total views of a specific post but not the identities of individual visitors. The data, including visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available), is retained by the third-party service provider for 28 days solely for the purpose of facilitating this feature. We track post and page views, outbound link clicks, referring URLs, search engine terms, and countries. Additionally, the performance of each page load, including the JavaScript file used for tracking stats, is monitored.

To ensure compliance with GDPR, we utilize analytics software to understand how customers use our site:

• IP addresses are anonymized across all Google Analytics hits, eCommerce hits, and form tracking hits.

• User ID tracking is disabled across Google Analytics hits, eCommerce hits, form tracking hits, and the User ID.

• The ga() compatibility mode is enabled.

• Demographics and Interests Reports for Marketing and Advertising tracking on Google Analytics hits are disabled.

• AMP users are given the option to agree to the Google AMP Consent Box before being tracked.

For further information on how Google utilizes your Personal Information, please refer to their Privacy Policy here. Additionally, you can opt-out of Google Analytics here.

Search Feature:

The search feature utilizes visitor-selected search filters and query data to fulfill search requests on the WordPress.com servers. We incorporate aggregate data on page views and searches to refine our search results. This feature anonymously monitors visitor search activities, including search queries and clicks, to enhance our search algorithms and evaluate search performance. The tracking encompasses various data points such as IP addresses, URLs, user agents, event timestamps, browser languages, country codes, search queries, and filters.

Share Buttons

When official sharing buttons are enabled on the site, each button fetches content directly from its respective service to display the button along with relevant information and tools for the sharing party. Consequently, each service may gather information about the sharing party. If a non-official Facebook or Pinterest sharing button is activated on the site, data such as the sharing party’s IP address and the page URL will be accessible to each service, enabling the display of sharing counts next to the button.

Sharing Your Personal Information

Your Personal Information is shared with third parties only as described in this privacy policy statement. Disclosure may happen to adhere to legal obligations or to protect our rights and property.

Upon your consent, we may disclose your Personal Information to third parties to assist us in utilizing your Personal Information only as described in this privacy policy statement.

Additionally, we may share your Personal Information to adhere to pertinent laws and regulations, respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful requests for information, or to safeguard our rights.

Note Regarding GDPR

The personal data specified in Article 9 or Article 10 of the GDPR is not collected by the Site. Moreover, it does not partake in extensive and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale.

Behavioral Advertising

With your consent, we utilize your Personal Information to deliver targeted advertisements or marketing communications that we believe align with your interests, as explained earlier. To gain a better understanding of how targeted advertising functions, you can explore the Network Advertising Initiative’s educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You have the option to opt out of targeted advertising by visiting https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous. You also have the option to opt out of specific services by accessing the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/. It’s important to note that certain correspondence related to your account transactions cannot be unsubscribed from or opted out of.

Disclosure Of Personal Information

Under certain circumstances, the Site may be required to disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

The Site may disclose your Personal Information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation
Safeguard and uphold the rights and property of the website.
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site/Services
Protect the personal safety of users of the Site/Services or the public
Protect against legal liability

Do Not Track

Kindly be aware that we do not intentionally modify our Site’s data collection and utilization practices upon detecting a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

How Long We Retain Your Personal Information

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 subscribe/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.

The Site will retain your Personal Information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Site will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Site, or we are legally obligated to retain this personal information for longer time periods.

Upon leaving a comment on the Site, we retain your Comment Information in our records unless and until you request its deletion. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Comment information encompasses, but is not restricted to:

The content of the comment itself
Your IP address
The name you provide when submitting the comment
Your email address
The timestamp of the comment

What Rights You Have Over Your Personal Information

If you have an account on this Site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the Personal Information we hold about you, including any Personal Information you have provided to us.

You can also request by email 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.

If you are a resident of the European Union, you possess the right to access the personal information we retain about you and to request corrections, updates, or deletions of your personal information. Should you wish to exercise this right, please reach out to us via the contact details provided below.

Moreover, if you are a European resident, it’s important to acknowledge that we process your information to pursue our legitimate business interests, as outlined previously. Furthermore, please be advised that your data may be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and/or the United States.

Transfer of Your Personal Information

Your data, including Personal Information, undergoes processing at the Site’s operational offices and other locations where the involved parties are situated. This implies that such data may be transferred to and stored on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

By consenting to this Privacy Policy and subsequently submitting such information, you agree to this transfer. The Site will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that your data is handled securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Deleting Your Personal Information

We offer Visitors a means to delete/deactivate Personal Information from the Site’s database by contacting us via email (see Contact Us below). An individual requesting Personal Information deactivation will have their information functionally deleted. However, due to backups and records of deletions, it may be challenging to completely erase a Visitor’s personally identifiable information without retaining some residual data.

Security of Personal Information

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

While we strive to use acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Users are encouraged to take precautions when transmitting Personal Information online.

Service Providers

We might enlist third-party companies and individuals to assist in delivering our services. These third parties are granted access to your Personal Information to execute tasks on our behalf. Your use of this Site implies your consent to this Privacy Policy, indicating your acceptance of third parties accessing your Personal Information to carry out these tasks on our behalf.

Third-Party Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may contain embedded content such as links, videos, images, and articles from other websites. Embedded content from external sources functions similarly to if the visitor had directly visited the other/third-party website.

While these links and embedded content from third-party websites are provided for our visitor’s convenience, we do not endorse or take responsibility for their content or services. Please be aware that clicking on one of these third-party links or embedded content will redirect you to another website. We strongly advise you to review the privacy statements of these third-party sites, as their privacy policies and terms of use may differ from ours. Visitors access third-party sites at their own discretion and risk.

Site Cashing

This Site utilizes caching to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are not accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor.

Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will promptly delete such information.

Your Consent

By utilizing this Site, you agree to the collection and usage of your personal information as detailed in this Privacy Policy. Any updates or modifications to our policies will be posted on the site to ensure users are kept informed.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy may undergo updates periodically. We will inform you of any changes by posting the updated Privacy Policy on this page. Additionally, we will revise the “Last Updated” date.

We recommend reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically for any alterations. Changes to this Privacy Policy take effect when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions please contact us at info@softautomator.com.