Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.acuatlanta.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Contact form

If you contact us using our contact form then we will collect the data shown in the contact form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.  We will use your email address to respond to your inquiry.  We will not use your email address to market to you or contact you for any other reason unless you have already provided that permission by other means e.g. newsletter subscription. Your email will be kept in our contact form database until it is deleted in accordance with our data retention policy.

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 this service. 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.

Please note that at present, our site does not accept comments.

Media

If you upload images to this 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 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.

For example, we  may choose to embed YouTube videos.  In this instance you would need to refer to the YouTube privacy policy for more information.

Analytics

We gather information about site usage which includes use of Google Analytics to track site traffic.  The information collected includes:

  • internet protocol (IP) address
  • browser type
  • device used
  • date and time stamp, referring/landing/exit pages
  • pages visited.

No personal identifying data is recorded.

We do not share this data with any third party.

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.

Data Retention Policy

We retain data indefinitely.

Update

This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 2, 2019. If there will be any update, amendment, or change to our Privacy Policy then these will be posted on this page.