Privacy Policy
On this page you can read the privacy policy. This policy applies between you, the user of this website, and Nicolished (Nicole), the owner of this website. Nicolished takes your privacy and therefore the privacy of your information very seriously. This privacy policy applies to our use of any and all data collected by us or provided by you in relation to your use of this website.
Please read this privacy policy carefully.
What personal data we collect?
This website might collect some personal data from users and website visitors. This personal data includes:
- Name
- Email address
- IP-adress
- Visitors own website if she/he fills that out in the form
Why we collect it?
This information might be collected to come in contact with you whenever that is needed. For example, if you win a giveaway, your email address will be used to contact you about you winning the giveaway. Your IP-address might be used to block you from visiting the site when you show malicious behaviour.
Your personal information is taken very seriously and will never be used to harm you in any shape, way or form.
How do we protect your personal data?
Because we do take your privacy very seriously, your data is protected by SSL-encryption. The website also used two-step authentication.
Third parties
This site does use plug-ins, which could be seen as third parties. These parties might collect some of your data. If you want more information on what data these plug-ins collect and what they do with it, read their privacy policies.
| Plug-in | Privacy Policy |
| Askismet/JetPack (Automattic) | https://automattic.com/privacy/ |
| CommentLuv | http://comluv.com/#wrap |
| Comment Reply Notificaion | |
| Genesis | https://kraft.blog/privacy/ |
| Open in New Window Plugin | https://www.blogseye.com |
| Simple Drop Cap | |
| Instagram Gallery | |
| Twenty-20 Image Before-After | https://wordpress.org/plugins/twenty20/ |
| WordPress Editorial Calendar | |
| WordPress Importer |
This website will not share your personal information with third parties, unless you haven given consent for a specific purpose.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the 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.
Media
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.
Contact forms
If you fill out a contact form, some of your information might be forwarded to the owner of this website. This information won’t be used for any other reason than to come into contact with you if necessary. This information won’t be sold to third parties.
Cookies
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Analytics
The website is linked to Google Analytics and therefore your behaviour on this website can be tracked. This information doesn’t give away any personal information and won’t be used to do anything with. The website also uses Jetpack, which collects analytic data as well. If you want to read more about both of these services, please visit the privacy policies of these parties.
Google Analytics:
Who we share your data with
Your data won’t be shared with anyone. It is safely locked within the website. However, some plug-ins might collect data. The owner of this website does not have any control in that and what happens to that data. If you want to read more about that, please visit the privacy policies of these parties, linked above.
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.
If you want to get in touch with the owner of this site about removing your personal data from this website, please send an email to info@nicolished.com with ‘data removal’ as subject. Allow 2 weeks for your request to be processed.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. The website is hosted by Strato and created using WordPress. WordPress does not collect any data.