What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. 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

Sound Insight uses both functional and analytical cookies. The analytical cookies are refusable by clicking ‘Refuse’ on the info banner at first use of the site.

  • functional cookies: we use these strictly for functional purposes. We use the WordPress plugin Polylang to handle the multilingual aspect of our site. To store the language in which you are browsing, Polylang uses the cookie ‘pll_language’. We also use the plugin Cookie Notice to notify you on our cookie handling, and to give you the option to refuse the analytical ones. Cookie Notice uses the ‘cookie_notice_accepted’ cookie to store your acceptation or refusal to this.
  • Analytical cookies: we use these to optimize our site and your experience based on your behaviour on this site. These cookies only gather information for statistical purposes and only use pseudonymous cookie identifiers that do not directly identify you. The cookies we use for our analytics are hosted on Google Analytics. The analytical cookies we use, include: _gat, _ga, _gid, _landing_page, _orig_referrer.

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.

Who we share your data with

Sound Insight uses:

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.

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 we send your data

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

Sent contact forms are solely being sent per e-mail to the spokesperson of Sound Insight, in order to offer you our service.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

Contact us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us through the means offered on this website.