Privacy Policy

Who we are

Aardvark Hill is publisher of Contemporary Children’s choral (secular), contemporary worship (sacred) and children’s musicals. We also have a small selection of vocal jazz and other music. Discover more about Aardvark Hill on our About Us page.  https://www.aardvarkhill.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

Please feel free to contact us. All contact form submissions are filtered to minimize spam but then go to an actual human – We know… it sounds amazing, but it’s true!

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use standard server logs and shop logs to help refine our search engine rankings, product positioning within our shop and focus our copy to help people get the best information that they want in the shortest amount of time.

Who we share your data with

We don’t normally share information with anyone. Of course we will share information with law enforcement with court ordered requests for information in order to help track and apprehend persons conduction illegal or illicit activities. We may on rare occasions partner with other companies we trust and may share limited data with them for the purpose of offering you our or their information, products, services that we believe you will be interested in. But so far, we have never done that in over 20 years.

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.

Your contact information

Please see our contact page.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We make every reasonable attempt to follow good practices and perform timely management of our site, it’s theme, it’s plug-ins and extensions. We regularly apply updates and patches on our site and use third part transaction processing (PayPal) so that we never see your, capture, store, or have access to your credit card information. PayPal is one of the most secure and trusted ways to do business in the world. We rely on their technology to ensure that your transactions are secure and protected.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Since we don’t keep financial information (credit card information) on our site at all, there is zero risk of someone hacking into our site and stealing it – It’s never here. Your username and password, order history could potentially be compromised (nothing is completely secure) so as an added safety precaution, we recommend that your username and password to our site be unique and different from any other sites or your computer so that if our site is ever compromised, your other sites and computers will not be effected.

What third parties we receive data from

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

We employ industry standard woocommerce plug-ins on some of our pages and products to recommend other products that you might be interested in based on associations we have made in a simple look up table. In the future we may use plug-ins that compare your past product purchases and current product browsing in our our shop and make suggestions for you to consider also.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

None.