Who we are
Our website address is: https://zeroplastic.life
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitorโs 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.
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 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.
Cookie Consent and GDPR Compliance
In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), our website employs a cookie consent banner to provide our visitors with clear information about the use of cookies on our site.
Cookie Usage: When you first visit ZeroPlastic.Life, you will be greeted with a banner informing you about our use of cookies. Cookies are small text files used to enhance user experience, perform analytics, and enable certain website functionalities.
User Consent: This banner allows you to either accept or reject the use of non-essential cookies. Essential cookies, necessary for the websiteโs operation, are used by default as they are crucial for the site’s functionality.
Types of Cookies: We categorize our cookies into essential and non-essential types. Essential cookies include those required for website security and access, while non-essential cookies might involve analytics, performance, and advertising cookies.
Managing Cookie Preferences: You can change your cookie preferences at any time through the cookie settings link on our website. Additionally, most browsers allow you to control cookie settings and preferences.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
Rights Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
For California Residents:
As a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants you specific rights regarding your personal information. These rights include:
The Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. This includes the categories of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of that information, our purpose for collecting or selling that information, and the categories of third parties with whom the information is shared.
The Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.
The Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information: If we sell personal information, you have the right to opt-out. However, please note that we do not sell personal information.
Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices, provide a different level or quality of goods or services, or suggest that you may receive a different price or rate or a different level or quality of goods or services.
How to Exercise Your Rights:
To exercise your CCPA rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by email: [email protected]
Only you or a person authorized to act on your behalf may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. The request must:
Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We will only use personal information provided in a request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.