Privacy Policy

Who we are

It is our policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable laws or regulations regarding your personal information.

This policy provides the details of how we collect and use your information through your use of our site thehobbyscheme.com.

The terms “we”, “our”, and “us” are all designated for The Hobby Scheme in this document.

By providing us with your information, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.

Contact Details:

Full Name: The Hobby Scheme

Email address: arianna@thehobbyscheme.com

This policy is effective as of June 29 2021 and was last updated August 26, 2021.

Information We Collect

Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions, and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services.

Log Data

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information which may include one or more of the following:

• First Name
• Email
• Website Name

Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

• Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content
• Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
• When you mention us on social media
• When you comment on the site
• Opt-in to an e-mail subscription list
• Entering your informtion in a form on the site

We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

• for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms

Please be aware that we may combine information we collect about you with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources.

We may also receive data from third parties such as analytic providers like Google (based outside of the EU), advertising networks like Facebook (based outside of the EU), and search information providers like Google (based outside of the EU).

Marketing Communications

If you consent to join our emailing list, you will be receiving emails from us on a regular basis for the purpose of sending information to you regarding the site.

If you wish to revoke your consent, you can unsubscribe at any time within one of the emails we sent you or by emailing us at arianna@thehobbyscheme.com.

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.

You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.

However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

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.

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.

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.

Third Party Links

This website includes links to third-party websites, plugins, and applications. If you click on these links, it will allow third parties to access your data or share your data. We do not control these websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies. We encourage you to look at their privacy policies as well.

Cookies

This site allows you to choose whether you want to use cookies or not. If you decide to refuse the use of cookies or to revoke your consent, note that some parts of the site might be inaccessible to you or not function properly.

To revoke your cookie consent, click the button below:

Revoke consent

We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on the preferences you have specified.

We along with other third parties, such as Google, might use cookies to optimize ads on the site provided by Google Adsense.

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.

When 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.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to:

• a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company
• third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, for example, IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, advertisers, or analytics platforms
• our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
• our existing or potential agents or business partners
• sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run
• courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
• third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you third parties to collect and process data

Who we share your data with

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

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.

If you wish to exercise any of your rights stated above, please email us at arianna@thehobbyscheme.com.

We may need to request additional information to ensure your identity and your rights to access personal information. We may also contact you to inquire about your request to speed up our response.

Where we send your data

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

Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics and Google Ads to optimize your experience. To learn more about Google’s policies, see this link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you can contact us at arianna@thehobbyscheme.com.