Privacy Policy

This is the website of Paul Goddin with a web address of https://godd.in.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you (1) sign up for our mailing list, (2) contact us via email or a web site contact form, (3) comment on a blog post, (4) buy a product we sell, (5) communicate with us directly, or (6) otherwise use the services provided on this website.

There are a number of ways we may receive your personal information, including the following:

We collect site visitors’ email addresses on this web site various forms and a contact page. Any visitor adding their email address to our mailing list must explicitly provide consent to the terms and conditions of my website(s) which permits use of the email address provided for promotional and marketing purposes. IP addresses are not collected and have been turned off in our site’s plugins.

When you use this site, certain information about you is provided to us by the use of plugins and analytics, but at the aggregate level only. IP addresses are not collected and have been turned off for these plugins, if applicable. The data we receive at the aggregate level includes information related to visitors’ location, the technical specifications of their internet-connected device and web browser, and how they used our site. We use this anonymized data to find out more about our customers so that we can modify or improve the goods and services offered to them.

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

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.

If you send us a message via one of this web site’s contact forms, your IP address will not be shared as the feature has been turned off.

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. Please also see our Cookie Policy (EU) page.

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.

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.

This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily.Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

There are a number of reasons for us to collect your personal information, to use it, and to share it, such as the following:

• as needed to provide our services, such as when we use your information to fulfill your order, to settle a dispute, or to provide customer support;
• when you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for our mailing list;
• if necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law; and
• as necessary for the pursuit of our legitimate interests (if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests) such as:
  • providing our services –  we use your information to provide the services or goods you have purchased.
  • improving our services – it is in our legitimate interest to improve these goods and services.

Information about our customers is vital to our business, so we only share such information in a limited way and under rare and specific circumstances, such as the following:

If we sell or merge my business, we may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.

We may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to do so, such as: (a) to respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) to enforce agreement terms and policies; (c) to prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) to protect the rights, property, and safety of other customers, or others.

We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services that necessitate providing them with some of your personal information. For instance, we will give some of your personal information to shipping companies, but only to the extent necessary for them to perform their contracted services.

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.

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.

We treat all personal information we collect about visitors and customers as confidential, stored on an encrypted drive inaccessible to anyone outside the company. We follow best practices for passwords and utilize a password manager to ensure they are unique, complex, and not written down.

Not applicable.

The owner of “godd.in” and Parker LLC, Paul Goddin, is also its Data Protection Officer. We take your privacy seriously, so don’t hesitate to contact us via this web site’s Contact page or via the below contact details:

• email: privacy@godd.in
• phone: +1 202-735-1011