Privacy Policy

Bond on the Box (“us”, “we”, or “our”) recognises that your privacy is important to you, and are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy on our website.

This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Bond on the Box (https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com), as well as the steps we take to safeguard this information. This will help you make an informed decision about the type of personal information you share with this website.

Please Note: This document may be updated from time to time. Please check periodically to stay informed of the latest privacy policy updates.

Bond on the Box respects your privacy. Any and all information collected on this site will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed. Any information you provide to Bond on the Box will be held with the utmost care, and will not be used in ways that you have not consented to.

Personal Data

While using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal Code, City
Cookies and Usage Data

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, competition winners and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Cookie Policy

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.

Email Marketing

We may use third-party Service Providers to send marketing emails.

MailChimp

Our Privacy Policy describes what data we collect and how we use it. If you have specific questions about particular data, you can contact privacy@mailchimp.com for further information at any time.

For more information on the privacy practices of MailChimp, please visit the MailChimp Privacy Policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. articles, images, videos, 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.

Third Party Providers

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.

Akismet

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.

For more information on the privacy practices of Akismet, please visit the Akismet Privacy Policy: https://akismet.com/privacy/

Comment Policy

When visitors leave a comment(s) on this 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

The Gravatar Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/

Comment Likes

In order to process a comment like, the following information is used: WordPress.com user ID/username (you must be logged in to use this feature), the local site-specific user ID (if the user is signed in to the site on which the like occurred), and a true/false data point that tells us if the user liked a specific comment. If you perform a like action from one of our mobile apps, some additional information is used to track the activity: IP address, user agent, timestamp of event, blog ID, browser language, country code, and device info.

Likes

In order to process a post like action, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID (on which the post was liked), post ID (of the post that was liked), user agent, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

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.

Links To Other Sites

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Contact Forms

If you contact us via email or contact form, the information you provide, including your name and email address, will be stored for the purpose of processing the request, and any follow-up questions. Following the successful resolution of your request, any data collected will not be retained.

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.

Akismet

The contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.

For more information on the privacy practices of Akismet, please visit the Akismet Privacy Policy:
https://akismet.com/privacy/

Rights Over Your Own 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.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.