At http://www.weirdworldstudios.com we recognize and appreciate your trust.  As such we make every effort to protect your privacy.  Our privacy policy (laid out below) explains the minimal extent to which your data is used and collected by the site (for the management of our newsletter) and identifies the third-party vendors who assist us with our merchandising and sales.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://weirdworldstudios.com.  We provide a large number of free resources related to audio drama and role playing games, funded by sales from our script and merchandise shops.

Who we share your data with

We do not share or sell your email contact or the history of your visits and activity on our site with anyone.  Should properly accredited government authorities with appropriate warrants request access and cooperation, it will of course be granted.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

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

Any contact you make with us via our contact forms is considered confidential and is not shared with anyone.

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 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. Youtube videos). All articles and images, however, are original to this site.  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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Our web hosting service tracks data regarding visitors to our site.  This data is aggregated and not personal.  We can see how many visitors we have had to a page but not who those visitors were.

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.

We use Spreadshirt for our merchandise shop and Paypal for transactions.  No personal or financial data is kept with us.

When you interact with these bodies they may ask for credit card details etc.  The privacy constraints within which they operate are available on their respective websites.

Your contact information

Your contact information is neither public nor shared.

Additional information

Anything you contribute to this site (whether comments or content) become the property of this site.  They will not be shared with any third parties, however, (except in so far as they appear on the website).

How we protect your data

We keep no financial or other data on this site.  Our shops provide secure transactions via Paypal.

What data breach procedures we have in place

We store no data beyond the email addresses supplied as part of the membership of the site and for the purposes of our email newsletter.  If we become aware of a breach and these email addresses become public, we will immediately notify all subscribers.

What third parties we receive data from

We receive and have no interest in third party data about you.

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

No automated decision making and/or profiling take place.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

We provide as transparent a policy as possible.  Please contact us if you have any questions.