Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://teachcove.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When you leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

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.

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 you 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

email Subscriptions

This site uses the Email Subscriber plug-in by icegram.com. Refer to their Privacy Policy.

This site saves the following information:

  • Your subscriber information
  • All the post notifications you create to receive new blog notifications
  • A log which has information about post notifications and newsletter emails that this site has sent
  • A log which has information about post notifications and newsletter emails that this site has sent

This information will not be misused. It is collected only to support the email notification that you have opted-in to.

Analytics

This web site uses Google Analytics.  It does not collect any personally-identifiable information. The reports are used to understand the type of devices, operating system, and browser that visitors are using to access this site and determine how often the site is accessed and which articles are popular.

It does collect the city that visitors to this site are located in. It does not collect names or residence addresses, only the city name.

Google Analytics does make guesses about your interests, and guesses about your gender and approximate age.

This site does not save any of this information information.

Who we share your data with

We do not and never will share personal data with any other parties.

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.

What rights you have over your data

If you 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 we send your data

Your visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact information

Contact mrdavid@teachcove.com for more information.