Privacy Policy

Who we are

Protecting your privacy is our priority. This page explains how the personal information we collect through our website and its subdomains will be treated. Since we are not professional lawyers, we do our best to provide this information in the most complete and understandable way.

Here are the different addresses involved:

For every following section, italic text is default legal text related to features we don’t have on the website. Though, we keep it to still be fully transparent in case those features are enabled.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

We disabled by default the possibility to leave comments on blog posts.

But in case comments are allowed, 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Our website does not allow people to upload medias.

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

Our contact form sends an email to our mailbox only. We will not share/sell your email or messages to any third party. We use the plugin Contact Form 7 to allow you to contact us. Here is the link to their Privacy Policy.

In addition, we use the plugin Advanced Contact form 7 DB to keep track of people who signed our forms.

Our contact form uses the invisible reCAPTCHA V3 system from Google to prevent us to receive spams.

Downloadable Media

We use the free version of the plugin Download Manager to allow you to download our documents. When you download a document from our website, we do not store your IP. Here is the link to their Cookie Policy.

We use MailChimp for our Newsletter system. Subscribing to our newsletter allows you to receive periodic news and info about Drinkable Rivers. We will not share/sell your email and personal details to any third party. Here is a link to their privacy policy: Confidentiality, Conditions, Cookie Preferences.

Cookies

We do our best to use a Cookie Management solutions that allows you to fully customize how you want your cookies to be processed.

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 the free version of Yoast SEO plugin for Search Engines Optimisation. Here is the link to their Privacy Policy.

Who we share your data with

As seen above, we do not share/sell your information to any third party.

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.

Where we send your data

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

Your contact information

As seen above, we do not share/sell your information to any third party.

Additional information

How we protect your data

As seen above, we do not share/sell your information to any third party.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Our website is hosted by GreenGeeks and we trust them for offering us a secure hosting service.

What third parties we receive data from

Google Forms

We use Google Forms for some specific needs. The data collected from such forms is used only by Drinkable Rivers and for the purpose intended by the form. We do not share the collected data with any third party.
Though, the data is stored on Google’s servers. You can check their Privacy Policy.

Disciple

For our community platform, we use Disciple Media. People’ profilesand posted content on this platform will be used only by Drinkable Rivers and for the purpose intended by the platform. We do not share the collected data with any third party. You are invited to read their Terms of Use and Privacy Policies.

Nucleoo

To collect the data from our Citizen Science Program, we use an application developed by data specialist Nucleoo. People who create a profile on our application can be ensured the data is used only by Drinkable Rivers and for the purpose intended by the data platform. We do not share the collected data with any third party. You are invited to read Nucleoo’s General Terms and Conditions.

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

None.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

We respect your professional privacy and will not share your activity on our website to any third party.