Personal Information We Collect

We may collect personal information from you, such as your name and email address, when you submit a contact form, sign up for our newsletter, or make a purchase. We use this information to fulfill your requests, communicate with you, and improve our services.

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.

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 who 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.

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 using our contact form, your email address and name are only used to contact you back regarding your request. It is not shared with any third parties.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save 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.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

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.

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.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect the personal information we collect from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that our measures will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access, use, or disclose personal information.

Third-Party Advertising

We may use third-party advertising partners to display ads on our website. These partners may use cookies and similar technologies to track your browsing behavior across different websites and to serve you personalized ads. We do not control the data that these third parties collect, and their use of that data is subject to their own privacy policies.

Affiliate Programs:

Graphics Gurl is a participant in various affiliate programs, including Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Google Advertising Cookies:

Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google-certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may revise and update this privacy policy from time to time. Your continued use of our website following the posting of any changes to this policy constitutes acceptance of those changes.