Privacy Policy

Who we are

Rural Patriot LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the Rural Patriot website (the “Site”, “Service”). Our website address is: https://www.ruralpatriot.com.

This information informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information when you use our service.

We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this privacy policy.

We use your personal information for providing and improving the service. By using our service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

PERSONAL DATA WE MAY COLLECT AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“personal information”) may include, but is not limited to:

• Name
• Email address
• Demographic information such as gender, age, location

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

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 visit our login page, 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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

ANALYTICS

Analytics cookies are used by us and by third parties who process data for us for data analytics purposes (e.g. Google Analytics) so that we can manage and improve the performance and design of our website for monitoring, auditing, research and reporting.

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool we use to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It reports website trends using cookies and web beacons without identifying individual visitors. You can read Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

We also use Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using Google’s Ad Settings page. Users can completely block Google Analytics tracking using Google’s Opt-out browser add-on.

Where your data is sent

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

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our privacy policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy page periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@ruralpatriot.com.