Portsmouth Freelancers Meet is run by Starboard Media Ltd.
The only reason we collect any data from you is:
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We do not collect or store any personal data or payment details on our servers, they are all collected and stored by secure third parties (Campaign Monitor & Eventbrite) who have their own privacy policies.
Your data privacy is important to us, and is only visible to authorised people who work with Portsmouth Freelancers Meet and for Starboard Media Ltd. Starboard Media Ltd are the founders/organisers of Portsmouth Freelancers Meet.
We do not under any circumstances share your personal data with any third parties or sponsors.
You can manage your data and subscriptions via the following methods:
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We use Cookies, specifically Google Analytics, to analyse user activity in order to improve the Website. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and experience of the website.
We use WordPress to run our website, some cookies and information are useful, but not required, in order to use some features of the site.
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 anonymised 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.
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.
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.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
Data held in our mailing lists will be held indefinitely until you request removal.
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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you have any concerns or questions, or wish to remove your data at any time, you can contact us in the following ways:
Portsmouth Freelancers Meet (run by Starboard Media Ltd)
We try and keep our events as free/cheap as possible for attendees, and we can only do this with the help of sponsors. Want to become a sponsor? Simply get in touch to find out how we can work together!
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