What personal data we collect

Other kinds of personal information that is collected by our website:

• Information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address, full name, username, and password for this site). All users can see and edit their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information, or they may decide to delete any user accounts on this website.
• Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notification (including your name and email address)
• Information relating to any purchases of our services you make on this website (including your name, email address, transaction ID, name of the service, and date of the purchase)

– Note that no credit card or debit card details will be saved on our website’s servers as all the financial transactions will be completed outside our website and will be protected by encryption technology. Therefore, the administrators of this website won’t be able to see any sensitive details about your bank cards if you purchase our services. We will only receive a transaction ID from the payment gateway to make sure the transaction was successful.

• Information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us or send through our website (including contact form, or any other forms on our website)
• Any other personal information that you choose to send to us.
• Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

Google Analytics

eslfluency.com uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics collects a lot of data from every visitor to our website, but it does not store any personally identifiable information. Simply put, it collects data about who visits our website and what they do once they get here. visitor’s IP address is used to determine their physical location but the IP address itself is not part of the data that can be accessed through Google Analytics. Information gathered by Google Analytics is used only by Google Analytics and eslfluency.com.

Comments

When you leave comments on our 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 anonymized 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Sharing buttons

When visitors use the sharing buttons below the posts on our website, information such as the sharing party’s IP address as well as the page URL will be available for each service.

Media and other information you publish on our website

• 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.
• Any kind of information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

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.

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. 

Security of personal information

• We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information
• We will store all personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
• You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
• You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential. We will not ask for your password (except when you log in to our website).

Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

• You should check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes to this policy.
• We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can 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.

Third-party websites

• Our website may include hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
• We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments, contact form details, and any data that you may send us through our forms may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

To whom do we disclose your personal data

 However, we may disclose your personal information:

• to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (a) need to know that information in order to process it on eslfluency.com’s behalf or to provide services available at eslfluency.com, and (b) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. 
• to the extent that we are required to do so by law
• in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings
• to protect our legal rights