Who we are
Hirondelle Magazine is a digital magazine that focuses on bridging the disconnect between decision-makers and the missing voices in the local communities to make development more inclusive and sustainable. We work with all development actors – practitioners, entrepreneurs, local community leaders, decision-makers, and grassroots organizations, to ensure that development policies align with the priorities of the local communities. Our website address is: https://hirondellemagazine.com/. This privacy policy explains the information we gather, use, and discloses about you during your engagement with our website and other digital properties.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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.
Média
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.
Contact forms
We use the contact form to collect some personal information including your first name, last name, and contact details. This information is used to assess and respond to your request as well as communicate with you for promotional services through our Newsletter and other digital medium of communication.
Newsletter
When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect certain personal information which includes your first name, last name, and contact details. The information we collect is used to improve user experiences (i.e., access to information that are restricted to only registered users) and communicate and promote existing and future services and updates with users. Users might also be required to submit personal information to use/access other services including purchase of a service/publication, registering to an event, submitting a partnership request or advertisement, and sharing/submitting a resource/article with us.
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.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (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.
Analytics
Please be aware that to improve our content and user experience, we may use some third-party analytics tools which may be also use cookies and other tracking mechanisms for their services.
Data retention and access
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, 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.
If you have an account on our 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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How we protect your data
We take your privacy very seriously and have put measures in place to protect the personal information we collect about you on our site. However, please be aware of the risks involved in storing and transferring of data. When you share information with us, you are sharing at your own risk. Additionally, please be advised that submissions you publicly share on our website or other social media platforms remain accessible to the public and are not covered by this policy.
Privacy Policy update and changes
This privacy statement was updated on 1/1/2022. Hirondelle Magazine receives the right to modify or change this policy at any time. We suggest that you often visit the policy for changes / latest updates.
If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us at dataprivacy(at)hirondellemagazine.com