Privacy Policy | iBlogyou

Who we are

Hello. Thanks for visiting our privacy policy. iBlogyou is a registered trading name for the sole trader, Tina Dubinsky, a freelance writer in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

The website address acts as a digital customer facing window. The website address is: https://iblogyou.com.au.

iBlogyou is a digital venue for providing blog writing support, copywriting and other associated freelance writing services and information.

This policy outlines how we collect and use information at this website, as well as third-party services and applications installed on this website to make the most of your user experience.

You should also check out our non-legalese page on how this website uses Cookies.

Definitions

User, you and your refers to online visitors, clients and customers who may be an individual or representative of an organization who browse and have the opportunity to purchase products and services from iBlogyou.

iBlogyou, we, my, Tina and I, refer to freelance writer Tina Dubinsky t/a iBlogyou ABN 14 632 643 578, a sole trader and owner and administrator of this website.

Website refers to www.iblogyou.com.au.

Shop or store refers to the online e-commerce store associated with this website located at this URL: www.iblogyou.com.au/shop/

Overview

Every user has the right and ability to control how they share their personal information on the internet.

You can use this website by giving false information or using technologies that help you to hide your identity. However, if you choose either of these methods you may not receive the full experience of what this website has to offer.

Intent

The intent of this website is to provide you with general information about:

iBlogyou’s freelance writing services.
Information about online content writing including copywriting, blogging, marketing, newsletters and social media.

And to act as an online storefront for blogging and copywriting services.

We primarily intended our services to be for people and organisations in Australia. However, we recognise that anyone who requires English freelance writing services can request to hire our services. As a result, we have provided writing services for wesbites in New Zealand and the USA.

As this might also extend to other countries, including those in the EU,

The personal data we collect and why we collect it

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (The OAIC) defines personal data and information as covering a broad range of information or an opinion that could identify a person.

Under The Privacy Act, personal information includes data and opinions about an identified individual or an individual who is reasonably identified. Personal information might include sensitive information such as racial or ethnic origin, photographs or location.

Personal data under the GDPR includes identification and identifiable information. Identification means your name, address, email, phone and date of birth. However, identifiable information also includes random identifiers such as an IP address.

iBlogyou collects your name, email, affiliated website, business, phone number and any other information you want to share with us regarding your writing needs, thoughts and experieces.

Aside from using this data to improve how my webpages perform in search engines and improve sales, we also use this data to improve your experience of this website and to deliver products or services that you purchase or download for free.

How we collect your data and information

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 we approve 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 your images.

Contact forms

We use several contact forms to collect information for different uses. You may interact with us through one or all of these forms.

These include:

Contact us.
Ask me anything.
The blogging newsletter.

Information is collected through forms for the purpose of providing interaction with our clients, potential clients and users. While the site also gathers information for marketing research and analysis.

iBloyou collects the information you voluntarily input into these forms. The information collected depends on how you contact us, purpose and intent. In some cases, we use third-party services, such as Anti-Spam by CleanTalk and Brevo, a SaaS solution for relationship marketing. You can read more about these services below.

Forms, email, phone and texts

If you contact iBlogyou, we may collect your contact details and any other information you provide. This information may include your name, company and website and a copy of the correspondence you send or request. We will only use this information for the purposes agreed to as described in the correspondence, relevent form, privacy policy and terms and conditions.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to improve your user experience. If you don’t want to use our cookies, then you can turn cookies off or block their use from your web browser. If you do this you may not experience the full functionality of this website. Things might act or look a little silly.

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. When 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.

To learn more about the use of cookies on this website read our Cookie Statement: [Enter link to cookie statement.]

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

Analytics

Google partner

This website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is an online programme that collects data about visitors to websites. It doesn’t personally identify users or associate IP addresses with individual people or other data held by Google unless you want it to.

Data Google collects includes:

Pages that users visit.
Length of time on each page.
The geographical location of users.
How users access websites (referral, direct, search).
Interests of users.
Browser and device used to access websites.
The traffic flow through a website (other pages visited on this website).
External links (which external links you’ve clicked on).
And more.

You can find out more information on how Google processes your data when you use their partners’ sites or apps at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

To opt-out of Google Analytics, you should disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use Google’s opt-out tool.

Spam checking service

Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

Visitor comments and information submitted through forms on this website may be checked through an automated spam detection service, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. CleanTalk processes the data of visitors to iBlogyou, including some personal data and device data from which it was accessed on the website (such as user name, e-mail addresses, device type, IP, language settings, type and browser settings, text messages and other). CleanTalk can also use JavaScript and Cookie tests. These data are necessary for analysis by Cleantalk’s servers to identify spam and may be rejected by a test. The collected data will in no way be given to third parties and may be used only to check for spam. CleanTalk may further use this information to investigate fraud or abuse, which may include conveying this information to competent legal authorities.

Content relationship management

Brevo

We use Brevo, a customer relationship management tool, to collect the information you tell us when you complete a web form or provide us with permission to add you to one of our client and user lists for newsletters, notifications and sales.

The data and personal information you share with us is securely stored by Brevo in accordance with GDPR and other relevant country-specified legislation.

You can email us to request a copy of your data or to remove your data at anytime. You can also unsubscribe from any iBlogyou mailing list.

Security logs

This website runs security apps that collects information about some users in a text file security log. This information includes:

Remote addresses.
Host names.
Request methods.
Request URLs.
Query string.
Http User Agent.

The purpose of this information is to:

Secure the website.
Monitor suspicious activity including post and get requests that have been blocked or forbidden by the firewall plugin.
Diagnose whether plugins and third-party services are functioning correctly.

Security logs can only be accessed by a person with access to the FTP login information or web host control. These logs capture information relating to errors, spammers and hacking attempts and are regularly reviewed and purged. You may also be interested in reading the section on Security of Data.

Microsoft & Skype

If you use Skype to interact with me through this website, Microsoft may use analytic tools including cookies and web beacons to record and analyze data resulting from use of the Skype integrations. You can learn more about Microsoft’s privacy policy at https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement.

Social Media Services

As well, this website connects to services from social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google Plus and others. If you choose to “like” or “share” information from this website through these services, you should review the privacy policy of that service.

Web hosting

No personal information is provided to the web host and service provider, SiteGround. While they license the equipment for our use with this website they do not collect or process any of its data.

However, their technicians may from time to time have access to the files and data of this website in order to provide technical server adjustments and maintenance. You can read their privacy policy here: https://www.siteground.com/viewtos/privacy_policy.

External Links

This website contains external links. When you follow an external link, you are leaving iblogyou.com.au. The disclaimer, privacy and security policies for this website do not extend to the external website.

Other websites that you visit should have their own rules of use, cookie statement and privacy policy.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its meta data are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). A designated website administrator can also see and edit that information.

When you submit information to us through a web form, we retain this information for as long as it is required. If completing the Ask Me Anything (AMA) form, we may use your name or nickname in our video or text reply published in the public domain and shared on YouTube.

For customers that register on this website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their own personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). The website administrator can also see and edit this information.

If you complete a general survey, questionnaire or poll on this website only the data you enter is retained indefinitely. We do not retain personal identifiers unless you provide it. As a policy, we do not associate personal data with general survey, questionnaire or poll results.

Task instruction forms (TIFs) and interview questionnaires (IQs) conducted privately for clients about their products or services maybe retained for up to seven years. We store completed TIFs & IQs in a secured filing system. They are never stored on this website. Please refer to your TIFs and IQs for further details.

If you request a quote or use the iBlogyou shop, any data associated with a purchase or transaction will be retained for as long as required by law. The Australian Taxation Office requires tax records to be kept for a period of five years.

If you no longer want your data retained on this website, see the section below with the heading “Access to information about you.”

Access to information about you

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.

iBlogyou will not sell or knowingly give-away your private information to marketers or any other 3rd parties for commercial or personal use.

Government organizations seeking information on registered users including authors, guest bloggers, visitors or commentators may require a warrant to obtain information.

If you want to find out what information iBlogyou has in relation to you and your use of this website, please write to hello@iblogyou.com.au. iblogyou may ask you for your email address, username, IP address and other formal identification to verify and obtain this information.

You can also have personally identifiable information about you removed from this website by contacting iBlogyou through the above email address.

Where permitted and applicable, I may charge an administration fee for searching, locating and retrieving information, as well as a fee for costs in collating and sending information.

A fee may also be charged for the cost of postage or other materials that provide access to the information, as well as costs associated with using an intermediary (refer to Chapter 12: APP section 12.78). As well, a 30 day turnaround time to verify and retrieve information, may be required.

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 we erase any personal data we hold about you online. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep offline for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How to opt-out of data collection

To opt-out of Google Analytics, you should disable or refuse the cookie, disable JavaScript, or use Google’s opt-out tool.

You can also use private browsing, use of a VPN and similar methods to opt-out of other data collection.

Additional information with regards to blocking cookies is available on iBlogyou’s cookies-page.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We take the responsibility of securing your information seriously. Tina Dubinsky acts as the data manager, controller and processor for this website.

A professional WordPress security app provides additional login security, firewall security, regularly scans for anomalies, quarantines suspicious files, provides anti-spam and anti-hacking measures and monitors and reports suspicious attempts. I review this information regularly and act immediately to investigate any suspicious activity.

In addition, we use an SSL certificate for this website. Information you send to this website is secure.

All computers and technology that I personally use in the course of my business used fully licensed security software and firewalls. I also update all software, apps and plugins either automatically or as soon as I am made aware of available updates.

If you have any questions as to the security of your information you can contact me directly hello@iblogyou.com.au.

What data breach procedures we have in place

When we becomes aware of a data breach our priority is to:

Secure the website and data. iBlogyou process includes locking down the website from all other users. This gives iBlogyou time to assess the impact of the security breach and be confident that the security breach is fixed.
Notify relevant authorities and third-party services about the data breach. In Australia, the NDB scheme requires any organization that trades in personal information to notify the Australian Information Commissioner of any breach of “personal information that is likely to result in serious harm to any individual affected.” (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.) You can read more here: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy-law/privacy-act/notifiable-data-breaches-scheme.
Notify users. Where possible iBlogyou will notify registered users via email. iBlogyou may also post a notice on this website with a link to this notice on social media services.

Data protection officer contact information

The data protection officer is T Dubinsky.

For all enquiries regarding the protection of data and cookies please email hello@iblogyou.com.au.

Other notices and policies

In conjunction with this document, you should also read the pages that govern this and other activities on this website. These pages act as the full set of policies and statements and include:

By continuing to use this website and / or by using this website’s services, you agree to the terms and conditions of this privacy policy.

I may update the policies and statements of this website from time to time and without notice to reflect changes to the services and collection of information. By continuing to use this website after the changes are published, you agree to the revised terms of this privacy policy.

First published: Februry 3, 2019; Last updated: December 12, 2024.