Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting your privacy. Our Privacy Policy (‘Policy’) sets out how we collect, use and protect the information provided to us by visitors to the website (“Personal Information”). The Privacy Policy applies to the service provided on the ‘WordPress Free’ website at
By using the service, you also agree to the terms of use and authorize us to collect and use your information as set out in the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please stop using the service.
For any questions, you are welcome to contact us at
What information do we collect and why do we collect it
You can browse our website without providing any personal information, but you must register to access a large part of the service. Personal information such as “name”, “password” and “email address” – are required to create an account on the website. However, after registering, you may choose which personal information will be displayed publicly on the website on your profile page and which will not.
• Contact information, including name and email address.
• Access information, which includes your password and a nickname that will represent you in the support forum and your personal profile on the site.
• Content, which includes content that you have publicly posted on the site such as: comments, questions, submission tasks.
• Profile information, which includes your favorites, your forum subscriptions, and your profile picture.
• Information about your computer, including your IP address, your geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
• Information about your visits to and use of the site, including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and your navigation paths on the site.
• Information sent to us by you, by email or through our site, including the content of the message and its metadata.
• Any other type of personal information that you send to us.
In the event that you choose to provide us with additional information voluntarily, you are solely responsible for this information.
Comments
When a user leaves a comment on the site, we collect the information in the comment form, as well as the IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymous string is created from your email address (also called a ‘hash’) and may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using the service. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be displayed next to the comment and will be visible to other site visitors.
Media
If you upload images to the site, it is recommended to avoid uploading images with location information (EXIF GPS) embedded in them. Site visitors can download and extract location information from images throughout the site.
Pixels
A pixel is code that is embedded in a site, video, email or advertisement and sends information about your use to the server. When you visit a website, video, email or advertisement that contains a pixel, the pixel may allow us or a separate entity to download or read cookies stored in your browser. Pixels are used in conjunction with cookies to track the activity of a particular browser on a particular device. We may embed pixels from various services on the website to allow us to track conversions, show you advertisements on and off the website and provide you with additional functionality such as the ability to connect our service with your social media accounts.
Cookies
When you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This option is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again each time you leave another comment. These cookies are valid for one year.
If you visit the login page, we will create a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal information and will be deleted when you close your browser.
We will also create a number of cookies when you log in to the site to save your login information and your display preferences. Login cookies are deleted after two days, and display preference cookies are deleted after one year. If you check the “Remember me” box, your login information will be saved for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the cookies will be deleted.
If you edit or publish posts on the site, another cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie will not contain any personal information and will simply indicate the post ID of the post you edited. It will be deleted after one day.
Embedded content from other sites
Posts on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos from YouTube). Embedded content from other sites behaves in exactly the same way as if you were visiting the site itself.
These sites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking codes, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including monitoring your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account with which you are logged in to that site.
Analytics
We use data analysis services such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Facebook Pixel to help us better understand how users reach the site and use the service, and to use targeted advertisements that may be of particular interest to our users.
How we use information
The personal information provided by the site will be used as detailed in this policy or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your information for the following purposes:
• Administering and operating our site, including your registration and account.
• Allowing you to use the services available on the site.
• Personalizing the site for you.
• Sending technical alerts, updates, security alerts, updates regarding changes to our policies and notices regarding support and service management.
• Preventing fraud, violations of policies or terms of use and threats or harm of any kind.
• Monitoring trends, usage data and activity on the site.
• Improving our service, site, marketing and products.
• Sending you a newsletter by email. (You can cancel at any time as detailed in the “Forms of Communication” section.)
• Sending you marketing messages related to our business and the businesses of carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may be of interest to you by email, or using similar technologies (You can cancel at any time as detailed in the “Forms of Communication” section.)
• Realizing any other business or commercial purpose subject to prior notice or your consent.
Without limiting the foregoing, we may use any information that cannot identify you for any purpose subject to