Privacy Policy for Plain Everthing

This privacy policy explains how Plain Everything uses and protects any information you provide while using https://plaineverything.com.

CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection.

Media

If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors 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 you don’t 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, we remove the login cookies.

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 the same way as if the visitor 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.

If you request a password reset, we include your IP address in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, we retain the comment and its metadata indefinitely. This lets us recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who 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.

Where your data is sent

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

Use of Goog Analytics

We use Google Analytics (specifically GA4) to understand how visitors engage with our website. This third-party service is provided by Google LLC. Google Analytics tracks information such as how long you spend on the site, which pages you visit, your approximate geographic location, and the website that referred you to us.

Data Collected: Google Analytics collects identifiers like cookies and IP addresses, which are considered personal data under various privacy frameworks “Google Analytics collects cookies and IP addresses which are personal data under the GDPR.” — [Simple Analytics]. It also tracks user interactions, browser types, and device models.
Purpose of Collection: We use this data strictly to analyze website performance, improve our content, and provide a better user experience.
How Google Processes Data: The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is generally transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. You can read exactly how Google uses this information by visiting: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Data Retention: We retain analytics data linked to cookies and user identifiers for [Insert your retention period, e.g., 14 months] before it is automatically deleted.

Your Choices and Opting Out

You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies in your browser settings or by utilizing our on-site cookie consent banner. Alternatively, you can completely opt out of being tracked across all websites by installing the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.