Who i am
I’m Cory Skerry, aka inkshark, and my website address is: https://inkshark.net/trove.
If you need to contact me in real life for legal purposes or because you want to tell me how great my hair is, my current email is on the contact page, as well as a nifty form.
What personal data i collect and why i collect it
Comments & Contact forms
When visitors leave comments on the site i collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Automated robot crap is ruining everything, ya know?
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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you ever want your comment removed, just let me know through the form on my site and i will remove it, though it may not be immediately–i have a lot to juggle, so sometimes i go a couple days without logging in to my site or even checking my email. If i haven’t responded within seven days, though, it might have gone to spam, so please try again (from a different address, if you can!).
I will not add your email address to my newsletter without your express permission, and if you accidentally check the box that signs you up when you’re making a comment, you can either ignore the confirmation email or click “unsubscribe” at the bottom, and you’ll be opted out. You can also contact me through the form on my site and ask me to remove you manually (it may not be immediately, etc., see above).
Cookies
If you leave a comment on my 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. I don’t even know how to view them, and currently, since they are not the edible kind of cookie, i can’t conceive of a reason why i would look up how to view them.
If you visit my login page, the site 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, i 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.
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.
I try to minimize that third party content in my design, because it’s also a security/privacy issue for me, but i can’t be a full-time programmer as well as everything else i do, so i gotta use what’s available, which means some third party stuff.
Analytics
Who i share your data with
NOBODY. 🙂
It’s a little more complicated than that, because for the purposes of this document “i” and “my site” include the services of a few others. Dreamhost, WordPress, WooCommerce, MailPoet, Stripe, and Paypal, among a few other providers of plugins or payment processing, have access to data you enter into this site, though as i understand it, in a legal sense, you are sharing it by typing it in. You can check this section for how your data is protected.
The upshot is that i will not share it with anyone, and those companies are all highly rated by users and bound by standard service agreements. Dreamhost’s in particular starts with this: “People have the freedom to choose how their digital content is shared.”
How long i retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so i can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. I don’t usually leave comments enabled.
For users that register on my website (if any), i 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 i hold about you, including any data you have provided to me. You can also request that i erase any personal data i hold about you. (This does not include any data i am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.)
Where i send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
The information you give for contacting you through this site either goes to my email, if you use the form to email me or to leave a comment, or into your account on the shop (currently WooCommerce). The one exception is if you check sign up for the newsletter, and then it goes to my email but also through the MailPoet plugin.
I will never, literally never, because i find the idea reprehensible, sell your contact information to a third party. I agree that marketing is a necessary part of business but i do not agree that it has to be invasive of non-consensual.
There is a chance that i personally might email you, as a human to another human, but i will not sign you up for my email list because you made a purchase or a comment.
Additional information
How “we” protect your data
I say “we” because it’s not just me, and that’s good, since i wouldn’t know how.
Your data is protected by multiple overlapping security protocols from my host (Dreamhost), my interface (WordPress), my shopping cart (WooCommerce), and the payment processor you select if you make a purchase (Paypal, Stripe, etc.). I admit i do not know all of them or how they work; but i still did my due diligence in researching their capabilities, and you know i trust them because they have more data of mine than they have from you. 🙂 Tbh Stripe pisses me off but it has nothing to do with poor security, hahaha!
What data breach procedures we have in place
If there was a data breach, i would default to the procedures in place from whichever entity governs the point of origin for the breach. If my database is compromised, i will handle it through Dreamhost; if i receive notice that Stripe had a breach and some of my customers might be affected, i will follow their recommendations.
Please familiarize yourself with the reputation and process of these companies if you have questions–this page would be interminably long if i were to C&P their privacy policies here in addition to my own.
What third parties i receive data from
At the moment, none that i know of. I collect information here for the sole purpose of communicating with people i know or would like to know, making sales of digital or physical goods related to my artwork, and that’s it. I haven’t even set up Google Analytics, though i grudgingly suppose i will eventually. Ugh.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
WHY DO WE LIVE IN THE DARKEST TIMELINE
Okay but seriously, WooCommerce has a cool function where it will suggest other items based on what you’ve bought. I have a lot of control over this function, however, so even though it is making the suggestions based on your choices, the suggestions it makes are still largely due to my decisions.
I will never share the suggestions it makes, even if you cared, which you probably don’t, because it’s not exactly incriminating or newsworthy if you bought a sticker of a black cat and then the shopping cart showed you, gasp, another sticker with a different black cat.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
As far as i know, i don’t have these. Probably there’s something in California though, right? California has extra regulations and labeling requirements for like… everything. Probably California thinks i am known to cause cancer.
For the record, i am like 98% certain i do not cause cancer. Maybe raised blood pressure sometimes.
