Privacy Policy for In The Public Eye

Privacy Policy for In The Public Eye. Please read it carefully.

Last updated: 2/10/20

The Catsfire Enterprise Inc (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://catsfiregalleries.org/guardian/

In The Public Eye is also referred to in this Statement as the website, site and “we”.

Member refers to you.

What this is

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service. In The Public Eye is committed to protecting the privacy of our customers. This page will inform you about the information gathering and dissemination practices for In The Public Eye. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact Support. You can use the Contact Us feature on this site or send us an email to Support. Subject Line: Attn Support. Then state the issue you are having. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

How we use your information

We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible at https://catsfiregalleries.org/guardian/

Your Personal Information

In The Public Eye uses your personal information to conduct business with you. Your personally identifiable information will not be rented, sold or shared with any third-party, except as described in this Privacy Statement or as otherwise agreed by you.

Legal Right To Disclose

In The Public Eye may disclose the information it has collected from any member of the In The Public Eye website and/or content any member has made available on In The Public Eye when it believes in good faith that the law or legal process requires it, or when it is necessary to do so to protect the rights or property of In The Public Eye or others. If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will possess all personal information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this Privacy Statement.

Policy Changes

We may change this Privacy Policy without notice from time to time. Please visit this page for updates and changes. Regardless of later changes or updates, In The Public Eye will not use your information in a new way without first providing you with an opportunity to opt-out.

Also, if you have not already done so, please click here to review the “Terms of Service” that govern your use of this website. Our privacy policy is considered part of the Terms of Service.

Information We Collect and How We Use It

Information You Explicitly Provide

In order to establish your membership, you will be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information to us, such as your name, mailing and email address, phone number, etc. We will use that information to communicate with you when necessary. Similar information is requested, if you choose to request a newsletter, fill out a survey or participate in any promotions. We may use this information to make improvements to our service or customize your service experience.

In any event, we will not share your personally identifiable information with anyone, including other third parties without giving you the opportunity to opt-out, except as expressly described in the “Third Party Service Providers” section of this Privacy Statement.

Aggregate Non-Personal Information

We use aggregate non-personal information (i.e. information that does not include personally identifiable data) for statistical analysis of user behavior, product development, content improvement and marketing, promotional and advertising purposes. We may also make that aggregate non-personal information available to select third-party partners.

Example: Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to track the traffic on our web pages. This is the use of aggregate non-personal information. The data collected is used to show how many views the website and or webpage is receiving. No personal data is collected. Presently, we do not use this information for remarketing purposes. Should that change we will place a notice on this website.

Cookies

Cookies are deployed under the following conditions but can be disabled by you should you choose. See Disabling Cookies for details.

Actions taken by you that cause a cookie to be deployed:

1. Comments can only be left by members unless otherwise stated. If you leave a comment on our site a cookie will be used to save your name, email address, and website information. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment.
2. If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
3. When you log in, we will also set up cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.
4. 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.

Note: The duration of the cookies is not controlled by In The Public Eye or The Catsfire Enterprise Inc but by the website program. In The Public Eye uses the Word Press program.

Information We Automatically Collect Cookies and Invisible Gifs (also known as “Clear Gifs,” “Web Bugs” and “Tracker Gifs”).

Generally speaking, we use cookies and invisible gifs to track users of In The Public Eye (including our newsletter service).

For example, when you visit the website, we assign you a unique User ID and store it on your computer in the form of a cookie (unless your browser’s cookie support has been disabled). Through the use of cookies, User IDs, and invisible gifs, we are able to optimize the performance and functionality of our site.

Disabling Cookies

If you are uncomfortable with the idea cookies storing your information, we recommend disabling cookie support in your browser. Your browser documentation will provide specific procedures for disabling cookie support. If you would like to opt-out from the newsletter mailing list, please see the instructions under the Choice/Opt-Out section below.

Note: Disabling cookies may limit the performance and functionality of the website.

Do Not Track Disclosure

We support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser. Check the help section of your web browser for details.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services and/or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use your information for any other purpose.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Third-Party Service We Use

• PayPal is used for payment purposes. You do not need to have a Pay Pal account to use this service.
• Chimp Mail is an email service we use from time to time for promotional purposes.
• Google Analytics is used to track the activity on the website.

This is not a complete list of third-party services we use. In addition, we reserve the right to change third-party services as need dictates.

Source: Google Analytics

1. Based on our legitimate interests (i.e., interest in the analysis, optimization, and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. DSGVO), we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about the use of the online offer by the users are usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
2. Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, which provides a guarantee to comply with European privacy legislation (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).
3. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our online offer by users to compile reports on the activities within this online offer and to provide us with further services related to the use of this online offer and the internet usage. In this case, pseudonymous usage profiles of the users can be created from the processed data.
4. We only use Google Analytics with activated IP anonymization. This means that the IP address of the users will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.
5. The IP address submitted by the user’s browser will not be merged with other data provided by Google. Users can prevent the storage of cookies by setting their browser software accordingly; Users may also prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to their use of the online offer as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
6. For more information about Google’s data usage, settings and opt-out options, please visit Google’s websites: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners (“Google’s use of your data when you use websites or apps of our partners”), https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads (“Advertising use of data”), https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated (“Managing information Google uses to show you ads”).
7. Incidentally, the personal data will be anonymized or deleted after a lapse of 26 months.

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Source: Activity Log

Source: EWWW Image Optimizer

Source: Paid Memberships Pro

Source: Akismet

Data Collected to Manage Your Membership

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 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.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order. The website is on a secure server.

Where needed, all supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We, therefore, will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). We do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 18 years old or older. Only persons age 18 or older have permission to access our Service. Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your child or children have provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our host servers.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Affiliate Site ID

If you entered the Site by clicking a link or promotion on another website (including another co-branded partner website), or if you used a site that provides universal registration services to sign up for our Site, we will store the ID of that affiliate site in our database along with your computer’s User ID. We do this to ensure that the affiliate site receives proper credit for any subsequent order you might place. We may also use this information in conjunction with your activities at In The Public Eye to help us identify what offers and services may be of interest to you.

Third-Party Service Providers

We may share your personally identifiable information with those companies that assist us in providing In The Public Eye to you. The following are some examples of our use of third-party service providers: We may share your credit card information with a financial institution to affect your purchase of our products using your credit card. We may share personally identifiable information (not including credit card information) with third parties that assist us with the administration of our newsletters or contests or that help us understand what our customers want and need from our service, including analysis of the results of particular surveys we may perform.

Contact Us via Email Form

If you use our Contact Us feature we do ask for your email address and name. In some cases, you may have to supply the browser and operating system you are running so our support staff may properly assist you.

Opting-Out

In The Public Eye provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving newsletters and other promotional communications. To discontinue your receipt of such newsletters and communications, send us an email requesting to Opt-Out of the receiving communications from us. If you want to opt-out of one service but keep a different one state that in the body of the email.

Correct/Update

If you want to review or change any information you previously provided to us, go to the “My Profile” section of the website. Once there make the necessary changes and save them.

De-Activating your account

If you want to de-activate your account with In The Public Eye, send an email to Support with your request. Please note any service will be billed/refunded as agreed when you signed up. Please be sure to include the email address of the account you wish to de-activate. Your account will be de-activated and you will no longer receive communications from us.

We will remove your account information from our database. Confirmation of this removal will be emailed to you before your email is removed from the database. A record of your account de-activation will be kept in our files for record-keeping purposes only.

If you choose to re-activate your account you will need to create a new account.

Security

In The Public Eye has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Statement, access to that data is limited to authorized In The Public Eye staff members and our hosting company and is further restricted by password protection mechanisms. By default, all orders placed in In The Public Eye are done on a secure server that encrypts all financial information through SSL. We do not store your credit card information in our database.

Other Sites; Contact Information

Links to Other Sites

In The Public Eye may contain links to other sites. In The Public Eye is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites.

Reminder: Opting out of membership is simple. Send an email to In The Public Eye. No reason required.

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. The only exception is 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

Comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.

Data Collected at Checkout

At checkout, we will collect your name, email address, username, and password. This information is used to set up your account for our site. If you are redirected to an offsite payment gateway to complete your payment, we may store this information in a temporary session variable to set up your account when you return to our site.

At checkout, we may also collect your billing address and phone number. This information is used to confirm your credit card. The billing address and phone number are saved by our site to pre-populate the checkout form for future purchases and so we can get in touch with you if needed to discuss your order.

At checkout, we may also collect your credit card number, expiration date, and security code. This information is passed to our payment gateway to process your purchase. The last 4 digits of your credit card number and the expiration date are saved by our site to use for reference and to send you an email if your credit card will expire before the next recurring payment.

When logged in, we use cookies to track some of your activity on our site including logins, visits, and page views.

GDPR Compliance

This website does not conduct business outside the United States. We do not sell any product outside of the United States. Therefore, it is not fully GDPR compliant.

Note: We have found that some requirements of the GDPR to be of benefit to all our members. Those that are applicable will be added to our privacy agreement. It is doubtful that these upgrades will make the sites GDPR compliant. But they will place another layer of protection for your personal information. To learn about these additional protections read about them here: The GDPR Policy

Contact information on privacy.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of In The Public Eye, or your dealings with us, you can email your questions to Support.

Privacy Glossary

Here are definitions for commonly used privacy and related Internet terms.

Aggregate information

Information that may be collected by a website but is not “personally identifiable” to you. Aggregate information includes demographic data, domain names, and website traffic. As long as none of these fields is linked to a user’s personal information, the data is considered aggregate.

Browser

Also called a web browser. Software that enables you to search and or navigate through websites or “browse” parts of the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. Examples: Safari, Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Cookie

A block of text placed in a file on your computer’s hard drive by a website you’ve visited. A cookie is used to identify your computer the next time you access the site. Cookies cannot identify an individual user specifically unless the cookie data is attached to personally identifiable information collected some other way, such as via an online registration form.

Domain Name

The company, individual, or organization “name” you use to access a website, e.g. www.google.com.

Email Address

The computer version of a postal address. Like a postal address, it contains information about who the e-mail recipient is and where he or she resides on the Internet.

Electronic Mail

Commonly referred to as email, this form of communication enables you to send messages and files from your computer through the Internet to one or more email addresses.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comment’s form, and 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.

Encryption

Data is scrambled into a private code for secure transmission.

Internet

A worldwide system of interconnected computer networks, whose use is not controlled by any government agency or central authority.

Invisible Gif

An invisible gif is a simple signal sent from certain emails or Web pages to the sponsor of the emails or Web pages, allowing the sponsor to keep track of the number of users who access the emails and Web pages.

Opt-In

An option giving you the ability to agree to the collection and dissemination of your personally identifiable information. A site that provides this option is stating that it will not gather or track personally identifiable information about you unless you knowingly provide such information and consent to such activities.

Opt-Out

An option giving you the choice to prevent personally identifiable information from being used by a particular website or shared with third parties.

Password

A private, unique series of letters and/or numbers that you create and must use to gain access to a website or the Internet.

Personally Identifiable Information

Information that can be traced back to an individual user, e.g. your name, postal address, or e-mail address. Personal user preferences tracked by a website via a “cookie” (see definition above) is also considered personally identifiable when linked to other personally identifiable information provided by you online.

Privacy Statement

A page on a website that lays out the site’s privacy policy, i.e. what personal information is collected by the site, how it will be used, whom it will be shared with, and whether you have the option to exercise control over how your information will be used.

Website

A collection of “pages” or files on the World Wide Web that are linked together and maintained by a company, organization, or individual. Anyone with a website may be considered a content provider or a publisher.

World Wide Web

A part of the Internet that links text, sound, and images in the form of web pages and sites.