WHO WE ARE
Our website address is: https://www.ipasource.com
Our Terms and Conditions of Use are: https://www.ipasource.com/terms-and-conditions/
This privacy policy applies only to IPA Source. We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. Please note that this site contains links to other websites and our privacy policy does not cover those sites.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT
We only have access to and collect information that you voluntarily give us via email, completion of online forms, purchase transactions or other direct contact from you. The information we collect, when voluntarily provided, may include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and any other contact or identifying information you choose to provide. We do not and will not sell this information.
We will use your information to:
- Provide, maintain and improve our website
- Provide and deliver the information you request, process contributions. and send you confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages
- Request feedback and to otherwise contact you about your use of the site
- Respond to your comments, questions and requests
- Prevent illegal activities, to enforce the site’s Terms and Conditions, and to otherwise protect our rights and the rights of our users
- We may employ third parties to perform site-wide related services, including database management, maintenance services, analytics, marketing and data processing
- Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
We will not use, sell, disclose, share or exploit your personal information for monetary gain.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
IPA Sources utilizes Google Analytics to track and report website traffic through anonymous user ids. This allows us to optimize our site for a better user experience. The tracking data from this website is retained for 26 months.
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.
CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT COMPLIANCE
If you are a California resident, 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. To exercise the access, data portability and deletion rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
- Calling us at 513-252-2550
- Emailing us at support@ipasource.com
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access to data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected data
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to the personal information associated with that specific account. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA
The information we hold will be accurate and up-to-date. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly.
The personal information which we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law.
SECURITY
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page. We do NOT store your credit card information, nor does our website. You are therefore required to provide card information each time you make a purchase.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.