Privacy Policy

Here's the privacy policy on Bioplastics News.

Disclaimer: Changes to the privacy policy

Any changes made to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. I can change the content of this page without prior written or oral notifications. In other words: I will not communicate any changes to this page proactively.

Bioplastics News

Bioplastics News (“BioplasticsNews.com” or the “Website”) is a website run and managed by Axel Barrett. I am firmly committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. You may be asked to provide or submit personal data or information on this website. The following policy sets out the basis on which any personal data or information will be processed.

Third Party Software

It’s important to understand the following …

Several web tools, software and programs are needed to run a website such as BioplasticsNews.com. The data or information that you provide will be stored and may be processed by these third party web service and software providers.

These companies are very professional. However, I rely on these companies as much as you do! And all risks cannot be excluded.

To manage a website, you need to use software called a ‘Content Management System’ (CMS) or ‘Editor’. It’s the most important software on a website I think. The CMS used to run this website is called ‘WordPress.com’ and it is owned by a company called ‘Automattic’. You can find the cookie policy of WordPress.com (Automattic) on the following link: Cookie Policy from Automattic

Data collection

In order to improve the products, services and communications with you, data may be collected from you. 

When you provide or submit any personal data or information, you consent to the collection and usage of that information according to your preferences.

Information that may be collected from you and process:

  • Information that you provide at the time of filling in forms on the website, including but not limited to; subscribing to the news or marketing emails, registering to webinars or other offerings, making an enquiry, requesting to download a document, entering a competition or completing a survey.
  • This data may include, but is not limited to; your name, address, phone number and email address.
  • You may also be asked to provide additional information such as your professional interests and your experiences with us as well as more detailed contact preferences.
  • If you use a contact form or email, a record of that correspondence may be kept.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through this website and of the fulfilment of your orders.
  • Details of your visits to this website and the resources that you access and/or download

Cookies

You can find the cookie policy here: Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of this website. This helps to provide a good experience when you browse on this website and also allows to improve this website.

BioplasticsNews.com uses cookies to:

  • Customise elements of the promotional layout and/or content of the pages of the website.
  • Improve the website(s) and learn which parts are most popular to visitors. To do this, we gather statistical information about how our visitors use the website(s) including device-specific data such as the IP address of the device (collected and stored in an anonymised format); the device screen size; the device type and browser information; country of location; and the preferred language used to display the website(s). Our servers also automatically record information including the referring domain; the pages visited; and the date and time when website(s) pages were accessed.

Third-party cookies used on this website :

WordPress.com

  • To manage a website, you need to use software called a ‘Content Management System’ (CMS) or ‘Editor’. The CMS used to run this website is called ‘WordPress.com’ and it is owned by a company called ‘Automattic’. You can find the cookie policy of WordPress.com (Automattic) on the following link: Cookie Policy from Automattic.

Google Analytics

  • Google Analytics (GA) is a free web analytics service offered by Google that tracks, measures, and reports on website and app traffic, user behavior, and marketing performance. It uses event-based data to provide insights into how visitors interact with your brand across devices, aiding in optimization and, crucially, ROI improvement.
  • GA cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. For more information please see the following page: Google (The platform is now called: Google Marketing Platform).
  • The use of Google Analytics (software) and its cookies have been discontinued on this site since a few years.

Advanced Ads

  • Advanced Ads is a software used to display content on this website. They usually called this an ‘Ad Server’. You can find more info on the following link: Advanced Ads

Data storage

Where we store your personal data:

  • The data collected from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for for one my suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing.
  • I will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
  • All information you provide is stored on secure servers.
  • Any payment transactions will be encrypted. This website used to have ‘pay walls’, meaning that you had to buy a subscription to read the content. The software used to process the payments (payment software, payment gateway) is called ‘Stripe’. You can find more info on the following link: Stripe. This ‘paid subscription’ service has been discontinued. It is no more possible to purchase a subscription at this point in time.
  • Where you have been given (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of this website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Do not share a password with anyone.
  • Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although, all measures will be taken to protect your personal data, it’s impossible to guarantee the security of your data transmitted to this website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once you have submitted your information, strict procedures and security features will be used to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Data use

  • To ensure that content from this website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
  • To notify you about changes or updates to our service.
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so
  • If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please unsubscribe via the link at the bottom of any of our emails.

Circumstances involving the disclosure of your information

  • In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  • If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If a third party provide services for us, limited to the following purposes:
    1. Understanding the use of our site and making improvements
    2. Administering a mailing list for customers that have registered for such list
  • Responding to requests from or providing any necessary notices to you
  • Protecting the security or integrity of our site
  • Otherwise administering or managing our site software.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  • We may disclose your personal information to any of our subsidiaries, our parent company and any of our parent company’s other subsidiaries (“our group”). Please note that is a precautionary measure because at this point in time the website is owned and run by Axel Barrett. There are currently no subsidiaries or parent companies. This website is a one man show run and managed by Axel Barrett.
  • We may disclose your personal information to third parties in which you have downloaded a piece of content and prior notice has been given to you. Please note that this if you download content on this website, your personal data is a precautionary measure because at this point in time no personal information have

Your rights

  • You have the right to ask me not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by unsubscribing from communications via a link at the bottom of our emails.
  • Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Their inclusion cannot be taken to imply any endorsement or validation by us of the content of said website.

Access to information

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. You can reach out to me if you have any questions. I do not share my personal email to avoid spamming etc. but you can use the following page that has a contact form: Contact me

Contact

I do not share my personal email to avoid spamming etc.

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed through a form accessible on the following page.

Contact me

The following text has been written and published by Automattic / WordPress.com on the following link:

Privacy Notice for Visitors to Our Users’ Sites

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Privacy Notice for Visitors to Our Users’ Sites

Hi there! This Privacy Notice explains how we, at Automattic, process information about the visitors of our users’ websites in connection with the services we provide through WordPress.com, Jetpack (including WooCommerce Shipping & Tax), IntenseDebate, Crowdsignal.com, and Akismet. Read on!

Who’s Who and What This Privacy Notice Covers

Let’s talk first about who we are at Automattic, what we do, and what this Privacy Notice covers.

We are the folks behind a variety of products and services designed to allow anyone–from bloggers, to small business owners, and enterprises–to create, publish, and manage their own websites:

  • WordPress.com offers the design, features, and support to bring a website to life.
  • With Jetpack, website owners that host their websites elsewhere can connect those websites to features and tools available through WordPress.com and WooCommerce Shipping & Tax.
  • Crowdsignal helps site owners create quizzes, surveys, and polls that fit their brand and vision.
  • Intense Debate gives site owners tools to manage comments on their websites.
  • Akismet helps keep spam under control by filtering out spam comments–hundreds of millions, every day!

To keep things simple, in this Privacy Notice we’ll refer to the users of the services we provide through these products and services–such as a website’s administrator, contributor, author, or editor–as our “Users,” and we’ll refer to our Users’ websites as “Sites.” Visitors to those Sites can read published content and interact with the Sites through features such as comments, “likes,” poll/survey responses, and follows.

We put together this Privacy Notice to help our Users understand the information we collect about their Site visitors (a/k/a our Users’ users), and how that happens on their Sites. Our Users are responsible for publishing a privacy policy on their Sites that explains to their visitors how data is collected via the Sites and how that information is used and disclosed.

This Privacy Notice does not apply to the information we collect about Users and those who visit Automattic’s websites (like automattic.com, wordpress.com, jetpack.com, or akismet.com)–that’s covered in our Privacy Policy.

Alright, with those introductions out of the way, let’s turn to how we collect, use, and share information about visitors to our Users’ Sites.

Information We Collect About Visitors to Our Users’ Sites

We collect information about visitors to our Users’ Sites in a few different ways–we collect certain information that the visitors provide to the Site, we collect some information automatically, and we collect any information that our Users provide to us about their visitors.

Information a Visitor Provides to a Site

We’ll start with information that visitors provide directly to a Site, which primarily happens when visitors type into a text field on a Site, like a comment field or a sign-up form. Our Users may also implement other ways to allow Site visitors to provide information directly through their Sites.

Here are the most common ways in which a visitor directly provides information to a Site:

  • Follower and Subscriber Information: When a visitor signs up to follow or subscribe to a Site using Jetpack or WordPress.com, we collect the sign-up information requested by the Site, which typically includes an email address.
  • Site Comments: When a visitor leaves a comment on a Site, we collect that comment, and other information that the visitor provides along with the comment, such as the visitor’s name and email address.
  • Crowdsignal Survey Responses: When a visitor completes a poll, quiz, or other type of survey prepared by a User via Crowdsignal.com, we collect the visitor’s responses to those surveys, and other information that the survey owner requires for a poll/quiz/survey response, like an e-mail address.
  • Order and Shipment Information: If a visitor orders something (hooray!) from a Site using our store and ecommerce features available through WordPress.com or Jetpack (including WooCommerce Shipping & Tax), we may collect information to process that order, such as credit card and billing information, and an address for shipping the package along to the recipient and calculating applicable taxes. We may also use this information for other purposes on behalf of our Users–for example, to send marketing and other communications from our Users to their customers, and to provide our User with analytics information about their ecommerce site (e.g., the number of orders from particular geographic areas).
  • Other Information Entered on the Site: We may also collect other information that a visitor enters on the Site–such as a contact form submission, a search query, or Site registration.

Information We Automatically Collect from the Site

We also automatically collect some information about visitors to a Site. The information we automatically collect depends on which of our services the Site uses. We’ve listed examples below:

  • Technical Data from a Visitor’s Computer and Etcetera: We collect the information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available about visitors to a Site, such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
  • Visitor Interactions: We collect information about a visitor’s interactions with a Site, including the “likes” and “ratings” left by visitors to a Site using WordPress.com or Jetpack.
  • Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of a visitor’s device from the IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, tally for our Users how many people visit their Sites from certain geographic regions. If you’d like, you can read more about our Site Stats feature for WordPress.com sites and Jetpack sites.
  • Akismet Commenter Information: We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address…oh, and the comment itself, of course).
  • Crowdsignal Response Information: We collect information about visitors who respond to a Crowdsignal survey. The information that we collect typically includes IP address, browser type, operating system, user agent, and the web page last visited.
  • Intense Debate Commenter Information: We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Intense Debate service. The information that we collect depends on how the User sets up Intense Debate for the Site, but typically includes the IP address and account information on the Site, along with the comment.
  • Jetpack Site Activity: We collect visitor activities related to the management of the Site, such as login attempts/actions and comment submission and management actions. For more information, please see the Jetpack Privacy Center.
  • Information from Cookies and Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a Site stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the Site each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on Sites. Automattic uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help identify and track visitors and Site usage, and to deliver targeted ads when ads are enabled for free WordPress.com sites or when ads are enabled on a Site through WordAds or Jetpack Ads (see the “Other Tools” section below for more details). For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how visitors can control the use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.

Other Information Provided by Our Users

We also collect any other information that our Users provide to us about visitors to their Sites. For example, a User may upload a directory or other information about Site visitors and customers to the “backend” administrative platform for managing the Site.

How We Use Visitor Information

We use information about Site visitors in order to provide our Services to our Users and their Sites. Our users may use our Services to, for example, create and manage their Site, sell products and services on their Site, flag and fight comments from spammers, and collect information through polls, quizzes and other surveys.

In addition to the above, we use some information about Site visitors who are also our Users as described in our Privacy Policy.

We may also use and share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify any individual. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our services.

How We Share Visitor Information

We may share information collected about Site visitors in the limited circumstances spelled out below:

  • Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose Site visitor information to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our services to our Users and their Sites, or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Notice for information about visitors that we share with them.
  • Third Party Vendors: We may share Site visitor information with third party vendors who need to know this information in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our services to our Users and their Sites. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
  • Legal Requests: We may disclose Site visitor information in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request. For more information on how we respond to requests for information, please see our Legal Guidelines.
  • To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose Site visitor information when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Automattic, our Users, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
  • Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Automattic goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, Site visitor information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Notice would continue to apply to Site visitor information and the party receiving this information may continue to use this information, but only consistent with this Privacy Notice.
  • Information Shared Publicly: Information that visitors choose to make public is–you guessed it–disclosed publicly. That means, of course, that information like visitor comments and “likes” are all available to others, including information about the visitor that is displayed in connection with a comment or “like” (such as a visitor’s WordPress.com username and Gravatar). We provide a “firehose” stream of public data (including comments) from Sites to provide that data to firehose subscribers, who may view and analyze the content, but do not have rights to re-publish it publicly. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.

How Long We Keep Visitor Information

If we are not legally required to keep it, we generally discard information about Site visitors when no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it on behalf of our users — those purposes which are described in the “How We Use Visitor Information” section above.

For example, we keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to one of our user’s Sites — such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system — for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, investigate issues if something goes wrong on a user’s Site.

As another example, when a Site visitor views your Site we use their IP address in order to update your Site Stats with information about their visit, like what country they are in. We keep that IP address for approximately 30 days to give us time to calculate your monthly Site Stats and address any issues with those counts.

Other Tools

Our Users’ Sites may contain ads from third party ad networks and advertisers, and our Users may integrate other tools and services on their Sites (such as Google Analytics and third party plugins). Please note that this Privacy Notice only covers the collection of information by Automattic, and does not cover the collection by any third party.

Ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about visitors’ use of a Site and across other websites and online services, such as a visitor’s IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by those companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to visitor interests. For more information about how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org, and for more information on interest-based ads, including information about how visitors may be able to opt out of having their web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit aboutads.info/choices (US based) and youronlinechoices.eu (EU based).

Other Resources

You can read more about how our products and services operate on the links at the top of this notice.

And we’d love it if you follow us on privacy.blog for more information about privacy and transparency at Automattic.

Additional Links

  • Our Privacy Policy explains our principles when it comes to the collection, processing, and storage of your information and data.
  • Our Terms of Service are the legal agreements between a service provider and a person who wants to use that service
  • Our Cookie Policy explains how we, our partners, and users of our services deploy cookies, as well as the options you have to control them.

To manage a website, you need to use software called a ‘Content Management System’ (CMS) or ‘Editor’. The CMS used to run this website is called ‘WordPress.com’ and it is owned by a company called ‘Automattic’. You can find the cookie policy of WordPress.com (Automattic) on the following link: Cookie Policy from Automattic