Who we are
Our website address is: https://fifonetworks.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.
Contact forms
If you fill out our contact form you are choosing to provide us with your name, email address, and phone number. Please don’t provide any other information that can be used to identify you.
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. 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
This site is powered by WordPress. We use the built-in WordPress analytics tools to see anonymised information about site visitors. This information includes things like the total number of visitors to the website by day and hour, the number of visitors per page, how long pages were displayed, and so forth. We don’t know your name or email address, unless you provide it by filling out a form. We don’t know your location. We don’t even know what country you’re in, although the statistics do show us how many visitors we have from each country. In short, the analytics tools tell us “how many” and “when,” but not “who.”
Who we share your data with
No one. FIFO Networks doesn’t share your data.
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. We’ll send you that data if we haven’t already deleted it prior to your request. 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.
Your contact information
We request that students in our classes fill out a form on the website so that we can send their course completion certificate. The contact information in the registration form isn’t used for any other purpose.
Additional information
FIFO Networks holds the view that “opt-in” marketing lists are the only morally acceptable marketing lists. Even if you provide us with your information for a specific purpose, such as leaving a comment or registering for a class, you won’t be added to a marketing list. The only way you’ll ever receive marketing emails from us is if you fill out a form for a marketing list. As of this writing, we don’t have any marketing email lists, so it’s not even possible for you to be on one.
I bet no one ever reads this. If you actually read this privacy policy, please contact me using the “Contact Us” page and say, “Hey Bob, I actually read your privacy policy on the FIFO Networks website.” Thank you and have a nice day.
How we protect your data
All data on the WordPress servers is protected according to the WordPress privacy and security policies.
We only extract your data from the WordPress servers for the purposes of fulfilling your requests. For example, student registration information is extracted and used to create course completion certificates. In such cases, your locally stored information is protected with physical security measures, access control lists, passwords, and encryption.
What data breach procedures we have in place
The only personal information we collect (and only if you give it to us) is your name, email address, and phone number. We aren’t required to notify you of a breach regarding this limited information.
What third parties we receive data from automated decision-making and/or profiling we do with user data
It doesn’t happen.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We don’t collect financial information, medical information, or even passwords, so this notice satisfies all of our disclosure requirements.