Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://dscnortheast.org.

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

We use contact forms to collect user information such as your name, email, where you heard about us and your message to us. Additionally, we offer an opt-in to subscribe to our Constant Contact newsletter. If you opt-in to our newsletter your name and email will be added to our mailing list. You can request to be removed from our list by clicking “unsubscribe” in the footer of any newsletter email, or by emailing contact@dscnortheast.org.

You can read Constant Contact’s privacy policy here.

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

Who we share your data with

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

47 Main Street Unit # 613
Old Mystic, CT 06372

Additional information

How we protect your data

This site uses third-party software to run regular security scans on this site to ensure the code is clean. This site also monitors user activity to detect malicious login attempts and also implements an audit log system to track any changes made.

What data breach procedures we have in place

The owners of any compromised accounts will be notified within 72 hours of when DSC Northeast learned of the breach. A public notice will also be posted on this site and/or other social media profiles for the duration of one week within 72 hours of discovering the breach occurred.

What third parties we receive data from

Constant Contact, ViralSweep, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube

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

Automated security measures will block specific IP addresses that exhibit malicious or suspicious activity. Depending on the activity the IP block may be either temporary or permanent.

Plugin: Defender Pro

Third parties

This site may be using WPMU DEV third-party cloud storage to store backups of its audit logs where personal information is collected.

Additional data

This site creates and stores an activity log that capture the IP address, username, email address and tracks user activity (like when a user makes a comment). Information will be stored locally for 30 days and remotely for 1 year. Information on remote logs cannot be cleared for security purposes.

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