Privacy Policy

Thanks you for visiting our website and your interest in our company and our products. The protection of your personal data processed throughout the entire business is important to us, and we want you to feel comfortable visiting our various sites. 

Below we explain what information we collect during your visit to our website and how it is used. 

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 anonymised 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.

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 and  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.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., to provide an analysis of the use of the site. From the use of Google Analytics generated information about your use of this website (including your IP address) to a server of Google Inc. in the U.S. and stored there. Google will use this information only to analyze the use of the site by anonymous evaluations and charts on the number of visits, number of pages accessed by each user, etc. are created. This we use for purposes of your own market research, and most notably for the optimization and customizing our Web site. More information about the technology used by Google can be found at www.google.com / analytics. 

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

Newsletter 

When registering for our Newsletter Your E-mail address for advertising purposes will be used until you unsubscribe from the newsletter. -Subscribe at any time. 

Security 

Exotic-corals.com take all necessary technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data from loss and misuse. Your data is stored in a secure operating environment that is not accessible to the public. In certain cases, your personal data is encrypted during transmission by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. This means that communications between your computer and our servers – such as for transmission of an order including your business information through our order system, using an approved encryption procedure is, if your browser supports SSL. 

Upon written request, you will of course be informed by us about what information we hold about you (eg name, address). 

Contact 

For questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal information, the disclosure, correction, blocking or deletion of data please contact us.