Who we are

At The Connected Casa, we are committed to providing our readers with the latest information on smart home technology and home automation. This includes product reviews, DIY tutorials, informational articles, and more. We take the privacy of our users seriously and are dedicated to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy has been created to inform you, the user, of how The Connected Casa may use your data including potential personally-identifiable information. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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 will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should take appropriate steps to 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.

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 for your account, 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.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

This website participates in various affiliate marketing programs. This means that we may earn a commission when you purchase products or services through links on our site. These links are provided as a convenience for our readers and do not affect the price you pay for the product or service.

When you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission from the vendor or retailer. We do not have access to or collect any personal information related to the purchase, and we do not store any payment information.

It is important to note that we only promote products and services that we believe in and that we feel will be valuable to our readers. We do not promote products solely for the purpose of earning a commission.

By using our site and clicking on affiliate links, you acknowledge and consent to the use of cookies and other tracking technologies to provide targeted advertising and monitor your activity on our site and other sites.

If you have any questions about any of the information contained within this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at theconnectedcasa@gmail.com.