Privacy Policy
Who we are
They Fly Blog & News
Our website address is: https://theyflyblog.com.
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.
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
Google Analytics uses a technical tool called cookies to collect information about website visitors, app users and their online behaviors. These laws include the EU Cookies Directive, CalOPPA and the GDPR.
Google Analytics privacy policy
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
To opt-out of Google Analytics, please visit the link below.
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Who we share your data with
We use PayPal as a payment processor when you donate to the blog or make a purchase through the online store at TheyFly.com. Data that may be collected include, but is not limited to, your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and any other details that might be requested from you for the purpose of processing your orders.
TheyFly.com online store is owned and operated by Michael Horn. We collect information about you during the checkout process on our online store. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and any other details that might be requested from you for the purpose of processing your orders. Handling this data also allows us to: – Send you important account/order/service information. – Respond to your queries, refund requests, or complaints.
For a full list of the data that PayPal may collect from you when using their payment services, please read their privacy policy at the link below.
https://www.paypal.com/US/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
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 quickly approve any follow-up comments.
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.
Contact information
For all questions, comments and feedback regarding privacy-specific concerns, please contact us at: support @ theyfly dot com
Additional information
How we protect your data
For registered users: we use two factor authentication as an additional security measure in addition to WordPress encryption to protect user data.
We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.
Third party websites
This privacy statement does not apply to third party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.
What third parties we receive data from
We do not receive data from third parties.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We do not implement automated decision making policies nor do we profile users based on their data.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We are not a member of any regulated industries.
Source: Really Simple SSL
You can find our privacy policy here.
Source: Akismet
Source: Flag Counter
Information Collected by our Flag Counter
A Flag Counter image itself placed on a website does not collect personally identifiable information. We are not able to determine whether a particular person has viewed a particular counter. The counter collects the minimum information that we believe is necessary to provide our service.
A Flag Counter displays information about the countries and/or regions that have viewed a particular counter publicly, as is its purpose.
Our counter service is a simple image. When an image loads from our server, the visitor’s web browser automatically provides us with certain information including the visitor’s IP address, the URL of the referring page (where the image was placed), and the user-agent string of the visitor (which ordinarily contains the type and version of a visitor’s web browser and operating system). However, the information we log is limited.
When the image is requested, our service queries a third-party company’s database which is locally hosted on our servers (no information is transmitted to the third-party company. Our service does not use GPS nor do we request or have access to a visitor’s precise location). This allows us to determine the country and/or region most likely associated with a particular visitor’s IP address, at which time that country and/or region is added as a visit to the counter.
To prevent a returning visitor from repeatedly adding to a counter’s statistics, a combination of the visitor’s IP address and the particular counter’s username are converted to an encrypted hash (which we cannot reverse), and then the hash itself is placed into a filter (for up to seven days after which it is erased). This method allows our counters to operate without the use of cookies.