LAST UPDATED 01/21/21
Today’s modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an online publishing organization like Shasta Scenes, a U.S.-based company principally involved in multimedia production and publishing, including the publication of the educational, leisure, travel, and tourism-oriented website located at ShastaScenes.com.
We are committed to protecting the privacy and safety of our website’s visitors, and this basic Privacy Policy Statement is intended to cover your use of this website in accordance with our Cookie Use Statement and Terms and Conditions of Service, by revealing why we collect your data; who we share your data with; for how long we retain your data; and the measures you can take in regards to your data.
In an attempt to provide our website’s visitors with the most secure and comprehensive privacy policy available, the internationally recognized OECD Privacy Statement Generator was used as part of the process of developing our privacy policy. You can find out more about the OECD by visiting its website at OECD.org. In addition, we have incorporated specific standards and practices encouraged by the global WordPress community — backers of the technological platform used to publish this website.
Overview
This website provides visitors with anonymous access to our website’s home page without the need for disclosing personal data. We only collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services; such as your name and email address if you decide to contact us. We do not collect or use this personal data for any other purposes or share the personal data that you voluntarily provide us with any other organization unless our doing so will be required to comply with a lawful court order, or if needed to report the commission or threat of a criminal act.
The Services and Links of Our Website
This website may enable you to communicate with other visitors and to post information to be accessed by others, such as when writing comments on our posts. When you do so, other visitors may be able to view the data that you post.
Our website also links to third-party web service providers. Each company will have a specific privacy policy. For example, this website may make use of content popularity and traffic measurement tools such as Google Analytics and other services that track and analyze visitor behavior for website optimization, determining content preferences, and the enhancement of your viewing experience.
Please see Google’s privacy policy statement for more information.
Automatic Collection of Information
We do not automatically log personal data or link information logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals. We may use cookies to store website access authorization information and to provide premium content access, as well as for performance analytics to enhance the user experience of our website’s visitors.
Data Collection and Purpose Specification
We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services, such as your contact information if you choose to email us, so that we may respond to you.
We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations. We do not collect or use personal data for any purpose other than those indicated here. If we wish to use your data for a different or new purpose, we will offer you the means to consent to this new purpose by indicating in a box at the point on the site where personal data is collected.
The Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It
For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide to us for display in their user profile. All registered users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Use of Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection and removal.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public along with your comment.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically rather than holding them for moderation.
Visitor comments may also be checked through an automated spam detection service, such as Askimet.
Media Uploads
If you upload images to the website, you should not only hold the copyright to that content, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included in them. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images hosted on the website.
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 are logged in to that website.
Children’s Privacy & Protection
This website is exclusively intended for consenting adults of legal age in jurisdictions where access to this material is permitted. As such, we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Disclosure & Visitor Choice
We do not disclose our visitors’ voluntarily-provided personal data to other organizations. If this policy changes, we will provide you with the means to opt-in or opt-out of disclosure by indicating in a box at the point where personal data is collected.
Confidentiality & Security
We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us your primary personal data (such as your name and email address), via email.
We have implemented security policies, rules, and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification, and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors’ data.
We ensure that your data will not be disclosed to any institutions or authorities except if required by a lawful court order or to report the commission of a crime.
Access to Personal Data We May Hold About You
You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you, and upon request by emailing us, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, usually within a week. We will provide the information without any charge and allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you, and, where appropriate, you may have the data erased, rectified, amended, or completed. We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their data but will give reasons for our refusal. We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of the data that we may have. In almost every circumstance, we will not have any personal data about you.
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.
Additional Information
Shasta Scenes is committed to protecting the privacy of our users and their data, and in the event of discovering a data breach, will initiate various forensic procedures while immediately alerting any affected users to the breach.
Finally, in respect to automated decision making and/or profiling with user data, we remain open to any technologies that will improve our site’s user experience and will update this Privacy Policy Statement and other relevant documents as needed.
Privacy Compliance & Support
We are voluntarily committed to a Self-Assessment procedure, and assist visitors with privacy concerns or questions about our privacy policy, via email, which visitors can use to contact us.