Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us here at Disabled People Network.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website, www.disabledpeoplenetwork.com

Disabled People Network’s website and/or forum is governed by the following privacy policy.

If you have questions about your personal information, please contact us .

The information we collect, and process include:
When you voluntarily submit your information through the website for the purpose of subscribing to newsletters, leaving comments on blog posts, registering as a member, and posting in the forum, we receive and store the following information.  These include:
Your name or username.
Your email address.
Your IP address.
Your 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:  https://automattic.com/privacy/.  After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Other ways this information is collected and submitted is by:
You fill out our contact form.
You browse this site. See “Cookie policy” below.
You fill out fields on your profile.

How we use your personal information
We may use your personal information in the following ways:

For the purposes of making you a registered member of our site.
In order for you to contribute content to this site.
We may use your email address to inform you of activity on our site.
Your IP address is recorded when you perform certain actions on our site. Your IP address is never publicly visible.

Other ways we may use your personal information.
In addition to notifying you of activity on our site which may be relevant to you, from time to time we may wish to communicate with all members any important information such as newsletters or announcements by email. You can opt-in to or opt-out of such emails in your profile.

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you in the course of your interaction with our site. This information may include technical information about the browser or type of device you’re using. This information will be used purely for the purposes of analytics and tracking the number of visitors to our site.

Your personal information will not be sold, shared, distributed, or reveal email addresses or other personal information without your prior written consent.

You can decline to submit personal information at any time.  However, if you decline, we may not be able to continue to provide service to you.  In order to request deletion of your personal information, please send us an email but in some cases we may be required to keep your information by law.  In such a case, it would no longer be active and would be kept separately in an archive.

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.

Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Keeping your data secure
We are committed to ensuring that any information you provide to us is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable measures and procedures to safeguard and secure the information that we collect.

Cookie policy
Cookies are small text files which are set by us on your computer which allow us to provide certain functionality on our site, such as being able to log in, or remembering certain preferences.

If you leave a comment on out 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 (1) 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 login, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.  Login cookies last for two (2) days, and screen option cookies last for one (1) year.  If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two (2) 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 one (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 behave in the exact same way is 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 the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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.

Your Rights
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 us.  To do so please contact us. If you believe that the information we hold for you is incomplete or inaccurate, you may contact us to ask us to complete or correct that information.

You also have the right to request the erasure of your personal data we hold about you.  This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Please contact us if you would like us to remove your personal data.

Acceptance of this policy
Continued use of our site signifies your acceptance of this policy. If you do not accept the policy, then please do not use this site. When registering we will further request your explicit acceptance of the privacy policy.

Changes to this policy
We may make changes to this policy at any time. You may be asked to review the updated policy again and re-accept the revised information.