We take your privacy seriously. This privacy policy outlines how we handle your personal information, ensuring it’s kept safe and used responsibly. You can find the link to this policy at the footer of every page on our website.
Information We Collect
We collect various types of information depending on your interaction with our site, including:
- Personal Information: Name, address, email address, and phone number.
- Non-Personal Information: Data such as browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.
- Comments: When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
How We Use Information
- Communication: We use your phone and email address to respond to your inquiries and to send you information we think you may find useful.
- Website Improvement: Aggregate, non-identifiable information helps us improve our website and services. For example, understanding which pages are most visited helps us enhance user experience.
- Marketing: With your permission, we may use your information to contact you about our custom swimming pool design and construction services. When sending you newsletters and swimming pool blog articles by email, we’ll always give you the choice to unsubscribe.
Comments and Media
- Comments: If you leave a comment on a blog article, we may retain the comment and its metadata indefinitely for follow-up purposes, or delete it the when we eventually remove the blog article from our website. An anonymized string from your email may be provided to Gravatar to check if you’re using it.
- Media: If you upload swimming pool images or any other images to our website, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors may be able to extract this information.
Cookies
- Comments Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These last for one year.
- Login Cookies: When you log in, we set cookies to save your login info and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days; screen options cookies last one year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends login persistence to two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
- Editor Cookies: Editing or publishing an article sets a cookie in your browser with no personal data, expiring after one day.
Embedded Content
Website pages and blog articles may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles) from other websites, which may collect data, use cookies, embed tracking, and monitor interactions if you have an account with that website.
Data Sharing and Retention
- Data Sharing: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
- Data Retention: Comments and metadata are retained indefinitely. Registered user information is stored in user profiles, editable by users and administrators.
Your Data Rights
You may request an exported file of personal data we hold about you, or ask us to erase your data. This excludes data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Data Security
We implement robust security measures to protect your information with Encrypted data storage and secure connections.
Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us.