Who I Am
My website address is: https://davidrebar.com.
I am me, myself, I, and no one else. This site is mostly to hone, polish my webs kills and sell personal items so I don’t have to give Big Box commerce sites a big cut of my pie. The IRS will get a big enough slice.
What personal data I collect and why I collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site I 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
Email address is required to create an account. Other information is optional unless you intend to buy something, then you will be prompted for pertinent information. I do not allow guest or anonymous buyers, it’s a slippery slope to trouble, asif the internet isn’t slippery enough already.
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.
Analytics
I do use analytics.
Who we share your data with
No one, unless you choose to buy something that I ship to you. In that case, I might use a “Big Name” shipping app to generate a label. In which case your information is encrypted at the PCI level of compliance.
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 my website (if any), I also store the personal information you provide in you 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 me. You can also delete your account or request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data I am 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
No one sees it but me. I only require a valid email address to create an account. If you should decide to purchase items or services, obviously I’ll need identity and shipping information.
In event of a purchase I do not keep any credit information, encrypted or otherwise. To reduce risk I choose not to store credit card data, so you will have to enter your information for each purchase, sorry about that.
All credit information used for purchases is encrypted both ways at the highest level provided by the banking app developers, which is PCI compliant according to their documentation.
Additional information
How we protect your data
According to the developers, all data that is used to create analytics of this site’s data is “anonymized.” You may not believe me or the developers, but I have enough trust in them to launch this site until I find reasons not to trust or believe them.
What data breach procedures we have in place
I do harden this site with additional means and methods. I’d like to brag on the Developers and rate them highly, but to name them would violate the first rule of security; obscurity. I’ve already told you more than I’m comfortable, but I’m obligated to tell you something.
What third parties we receive data from
To my knowledge, I do not receive data from third parties. However, a few “Big Box” data companies do crunch this site’s data to provide me with useful statics, trends and ways to improve my commerce site.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
What little data you voluntarily or automatically give through normal use of internet protocols is run through a few “black boxes” to determine if you are real, not a bot, verified, legitimate and not on some obvious nefarious “naughty lists.” The methods are less than perfect and some genuine folks may be denied login, but I’ve had fewer problems with Ghosts, Script Kiddies and Tor Hackers.
At least you don’t have to choose crumby photos of crosswalks, bicycles, cars, traffic lights, or buses; but do notice the ReCaptcha symbol.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
I try my hardest to abide the highest global ethical standard for internet data and commerce, which is the GDPR.
