Hello and thank you for visiting the website and health blog, U-Foria.
This privacy policy pertains to the website address: https://u-foria.com. It is one in a group of websites managed by iBlogyou located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. iBlogyou is a trading name for Tina Dubinsky Freelance Writer ABN 14 632 643 578.
What does U-Foria’s privacy policy cover?
This privacy policy outlines the data we collect about you, what happens to it and third-party services we interact with that receive your information.
Definitions in this document
User, you and your refers to online visitors and customers who may be an individual or representative of an organisation who browse the site and have the opportunity to purchase products or services from U-Foria.
We refers to Tina Dubinsky Freelance Writer ABN 14 632 643 578, Chief Blogger and Happiness Engineer of this website.
U-Foria, The or this website refers to https://u-foria.com. It is inclusive of all pages hosted on this domain or the website’s sub-domains.
Overview
Every user has the right and ability to control how they share their personal information on the internet.
You are free to use this website by giving false information or using technologies that help you to hide your identity. However, if you choose either of these methods you may not receive the full experience of what U-Foria has to offer.
You should also read the non-legalese page on how this website uses Cookies.
Intent
The intent of this website is to provide a platform for raising the awareness of mental health issues by sharing a real story and an authentic journey about change and finding inspiration and motivation.
The personal data we collect, why we collect it and who we share it with
U-Foria will never sell your personal data to anyone. Personal data under the GDPR includes identification and identifiable information. Identification means your name, address, email, phone and date of birth. But identifiable information includes random identifiers such as an IP address.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the website 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 linked to WordPress 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 Gravatar 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
When you fill in a contact or sign-up form, the information you provide on that form is stored in our CRM. We use Brevo for email and other communications. This service may use cookies to track your page views and show or hide content based on your contact record. You can view the privacy policy of this service provider here: https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/.
We only collect the information you voluntarily input into these forms.
Security logs
This website runs security plugins. They collect information about some users in a text file security log. This information includes:
- Remote addresses.
- Hostnames.
- Request methods.
- Request URLs.
- Query string.
- Http User-Agent.
It does not record names or other personal detail.
The purpose of this information is to:
- Secure the website.
- Monitor suspicious activity including post and get requests that have been blocked or forbidden by the firewall plugin.
- Diagnose whether pages, plugins and third-party services are functioning correctly.
Security logs can only be accessed by a web administrator These logs capture information relating to errors, spammers and hacking attempts and are regularly reviewed and purged.
You may also be interested in reading the section titled: How we protect your data.
Cookies
When 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 may last up to one year.
When you visit the login page, the website sets 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 website also sets 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.
We have chosen Brevo to provide contact relationship management such as email and newsletter communications. This service may use cookies to track your page views and show or hide content based on your contact record. You can view the privacy policy of this service provider
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
Google Partner
This website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is an online programme that collects data about visitors to websites. It doesn’t personally identify users or associate IP addresses with individual people or other data held by Google unless you want it to.
Data Google collects includes:
- Pages that users visit.
- Length of time on each page.
- The geographical location of users.
- How users access websites (referral, direct, search).
- Interests of users.
- Browser and device used to access websites.
- The traffic flow through a website (other pages visited on this website).
- External links (which external links you’ve clicked on).
- And more.
You can find out more information on how Google processes your data when you use their partners’ sites or apps at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
To opt-out of Google Analytics, you should disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use Google’s opt-out tool.
Web hosting
No personal information is provided to the web host and service provider, SiteGround. While they license the equipment for U-Foria’s use they do not collect or process any of its data.
However, their technicians may from time to time have access to the files and data of this website in order to provide technical server adjustments and maintenance. You can read their privacy policy here: https://www.siteground.com/viewtos/privacy_policy.
How we share, retain and protect your data
Data sharing
We may process information relating to our user relationships, including user contact information (“user relationship data“). The user relationship data may include your name, your contact details and other information contained in communications between us and you or your employer, if applicable.
The source of the user relationship data is you. The user relationship data may be processed for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you, keeping records of those communications and promoting our blog and any related products and services to users. The legal basis for this processing is consent.
This means, that as our relationship develops, we may record information pertaining to our relationship in the form of private notes and tags about your interests. This data can be used to give trend analysis (e.g. how many people are requesting “X” and then we may use this data to prioritise the website’s content creation).
Data retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register (such as guest writers) or fill in a form on the website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles or CRM.
All users can request to view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
We may charge an administration fee for editing your personal data (refer to Chapter 12: APP section 12.78). As well, a 30 day turnaround time to verify and retrieve information, may be required.
Your rights
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.
We may charge an administration fee for providing the exported file and erasing your personal data. A fee may also be charged for the cost of postage or other materials that provide access to the information, as well as costs associated with using an intermediary service (refer to Chapter 12: APP section 12.78). As well, a 30 day turnaround time to verify and retrieve information, may be required.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We currently use Akismet (owned by Automatic) for spam detection. You can read the Akismet privacy policy here: https://akismet.com/privacy/.
How to opt-out of data collection
To opt-out of Google Analytics, you should disable, block or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use Google’s opt-out tool.
You can also use private browsing or use a VPN and similar methods to opt-out of other data collection.
Finally, you can also refrain from posting comments, filling out and submitting forms and surveys, downloading resources, or engaging with the website in any manner.
How we protect your data
We use applications to optimise the security of this website. It includes a two-factor authentication process for all registered users and it tracks users, ip addresses and visited pages.
We do not store any sensitive financial or personal information on this website.
What data breach procedures we have in place
When we become aware of a data breach our priority is to:
- Secure the website and data. U-Foria’s process includes locking down the website from all other users. This gives us time to assess the impact of the security breach and be confident that the security breach is fixed.
- Notify users. Where possible we will notify registered users via email. We may also post a notice on this website with a link to the notice on social media services.
- Notify relevant authorities and third-party services about the data breach. In Australia, the NDB scheme requires any organization that trades in personal information to notify the Australian Information Commissioner of any breach of “personal information that is likely to result in serious harm to any individual affected.” (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.) You can read more here: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy-law/privacy-act/notifiable-data-breaches-scheme.
Data protection officer contact information
The data protection officer is T Dubinsky. For all enquiries regarding the protection of data and privacy, please email hello@u-foria.com.
Other Notices And Policies
In conjunction with this document, you should also read the pages that govern this and other activities on this website. These pages act as the full set of policies and statements and include:
U-Foria may update the policies and statements of this website from time to time and without notice to reflect changes to the services and collection of information.
By continuing to use this website and/or by using this website’s services, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy including revised terms.
Last updated 14 August 2024.