Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 10, 2025

Who We Are

Our website address is: rationalwp.com

Comments

We have disabled comments on our posts, so there is no collection of user data, IP addresses, or browser user agent strings associated with public commenting.

Media

If you are a registered contributor or administrator and 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

Core Functionality & Login

Since we do not allow public user registration, we do not set login cookies for general site visitors. However, if you have an account on this site (e.g., as an Administrator or Contributor) and you log in, 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, the login cookies will be removed.

Cookie Consent (CookieYes)

We use CookieYes to manage cookie consent on our website to ensure compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations. CookieYes sets a cookie to remember your consent preferences so that you are not asked for consent on every visit. This cookie does not store any personal identification data.

Analytics (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. This service sets cookies to track information such as:

  • Time of visit, pages visited, and time spent on each page.
  • Referring site details (the URI a user came through to arrive at this site).
  • Type of web browser and Operating System (OS).
  • Network location and IP address.

These cookies help us improve our content and user experience. You can opt-out of Google Analytics cookies via the consent banner provided by CookieYes upon your first visit, or by modifying your browser settings.

Contact Forms

If you contact us via the contact form on our website, we collect the data shown in the form, specifically your [Name, Email Address, and Message].

We collect this information solely to answer your questions and provide customer service. This data is sent directly to our email inbox and is not stored in the website database. We retain these emails for [e.g., 6 months] for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted for marketing purposes.

Spam Protection (Google reCAPTCHA)

We use the Google reCAPTCHA v3 service to protect our website from spam and abuse. This service analyzes traffic on the website (including browser information, IP address, and user behavior like mouse movements) to distinguish between humans and automated bots.

This analysis takes place in the background. By using our contact forms, you acknowledge that your data may be transmitted to Google for this security purpose.

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

We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We share data with the following third-party services for technical and security purposes:

  • Google Analytics: Non-personally identifiable data regarding your website usage is transmitted to Google to generate analytics reports.
  • Google reCAPTCHA: Traffic data is shared with Google to prevent spam and abuse.
  • CookieYes: Your consent status is managed via the CookieYes platform.

How Long We Retain Your Data

  • Google Analytics Data: Data associated with cookies, user identifiers, or advertising identifiers is retained for [14 months / 26 months] before being automatically deleted.
  • User Accounts: For the limited number of users that register on our website (Administrators and Contributors), we 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 (Administrator/Contributor), 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.

Contact Information

If you have privacy-specific concerns, you can contact us at: