Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.theninecenters.com.

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.

Contact forms

Newsletter / marketing campaigns

When you register to our newsletter, you consent to receiving news, blogs and marketing campaigns to your email adress. We keep a record of these email adresses, you can unsubscribe by clicking a link at the bottom of emails or by contacting us.
Through Mailchimp we also have a record of which country your IP was when you subscribed to our newsletter.

Tracking

We use tracking on our newsletter / marketing emails for marketing purposes. We keep a record of who opened which email and which links within the emails were clicked and how many times. All of that is done through Mailchimp.
Click here to read Mailchimp’s privacy policy.

Cookies

Check out our Cookie Policy page.

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 (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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to get statistical data about how our website is being used. If you agree to our use of statistical cookies we will have info about which pages you visit, which website you brought you to ours, which city you live in and other such infos. Your IP address is however not recorded so we cannot put your name on all this information. It is useful to us so we know how many people visit our website and what demographics is interested in our services.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with anyone.

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

You can request to receive an exported file of all 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.

If you sign up to our newsletter, your email and the other information you provide to us is stored in our mailing service.

Information about how people use this website is sent to Google Analytics so we can have statistical data.

Your contact information

Please contact us through our contact form on the site for any reason.

Additional information

How we protect your data

Our site is protected by a Wordfence security to prevent data breaches at the site level. Any emails collected through our newsletter are kept protected by the email management provider’s security system.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If any data breach should take place we will take measures to close the breach and restore a secure environment. We will contact the affected users so they can take measures such as changing passwords and protecting their data.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not receive data from any third parties.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not do any automated decision making or profiling of user data.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

None