Privacy Policy

Last updated: 9 March 2021

Gareth Hadfield (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates opdiv.com (“this website”, “this site”, “our website”, “our site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of this site.

We use your Personal Information for providing and improving this site and associated services. By using this site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this 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.

Information You Supply

If you register on this website or make a purchase we may collect the information you choose to supply. This may include personally identifiable information including (but not limited to) Name, Email Address, Website, Various social media profile URLs such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter username, Biographical Information, Profile Picture, customer billing information such as Billing Address and Shipping Address, Customer Order Information.

Media

If you upload images to this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to this website can download and extract any location data from images on this website.

Cookies

Like most websites, we use ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information such as visitors’ preferences. The information is used to optimise the users’ experience. If you opt out of allowing the use of cookies, the features of this website may not function correctly, and we may not be able to provide some features and services.

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.

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site (“Log Data”).

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyse this information.

Analytics

This website uses the analytics tools Google Analytics which transmits website traffic data to Google servers, that may be located outside of Australia. We use reports provided by these analytics tools to help us understand website traffic and usage.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by analytics tool providers in the manner described in Google’s Privacy Policy, and for the purposes set out above.

You can opt out of Google Analytics if you disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use the opt-out service provided by Google.

Marketing

If you supply your contact details such as email address. We may, from time to time, send you information about our products and services. We do not provide your contact details to anyone else, unless we believe it is required by law. If you wish to opt-out of this type of communication, a mechanism will be provided to unsubscribe.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.

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.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Where we send your data

Comments

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact information

You can contact us at info@opdiv.com