Privacy Policy

At Luxury Commentator, accessible at luxurycommentator.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains the types of information that is collected by Luxury Commentator and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at privacy@luxurycommentator.com

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

We are a Data Controller of your information.

Luxury Commentator’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information. The following reasons may apply:

  • Luxury Commentator needs to perform a contract with you
  • You have given Luxury Commentator permission to do so
  • Processing your personal information is in Luxury Commentator’s legitimate interests
  • Luxury Commentator needs to comply with the law

Luxury Commentator will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
  • The right of rectification.
  • The right to object.
  • The right of restriction.
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to withdraw consent

Log Files

Luxury Commentator follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the frequency of clicks. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering geographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like other websites, Luxury Commentator uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. It is also used to help us understand how people discover our content. 

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.

For more information about our use of Cookies please visit our cookie policy page: https://luxurycommentator.com/cookie-policy/

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.

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

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.

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.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Luxury Commentator’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. 

Online Privacy Policy Only

This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Luxury Commentator. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Last Updated: 31st January 2020