Dwell in Possibility

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

~ Ethel Wilson

Privacy Policy

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Our website (“the site”) address is: https://dwellinpossibility.ca and is built using WordPress. 

 

The following privacy policy outlines how WordPress and related plug-ins may use personal information provided through the website. Please also see the WordPress Privacy Policy.

Subscribing

The site offers an option to subscribe to new articles via email. This subscription form is provided through a WordPress plug-in and is connected to Mailchimp. When you enter your email address and select subscribe, an email will be sent to the address provided. 

 

You must select Confirm in the email to confirm your email and provide your consent for the subscription. Mailchimp saves email addresses submitted through the subscription form for the purpose of sending emails when new articles are published on the site.

Contact Form

The site includes a contact form for inquiries about the services provided by Dwell in Possibility®. The information submitted in this form is sent via email to Dwell in Possibility®. 

 

Dwell in Possibility® uses the information submitted via the contact form for the purpose of responding to inquiries. Dwell in Possibility® does not provide this information to any third parties.

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. Please see the Gravatar service privacy policy for more information. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

Our website includes a pop-up Cookie Policy to advise you that the site uses cookies to operate. By continuing to use the website, you agree to their use. Learn more.

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.

Embedded Content

Pages and 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.

Retention Period

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.

Your Rights

If you have left comments on this site, 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.

Spam Detection

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