Meta & Google Paid Ad Surveillance

ComplexTraumaConsultant.com does not, has never, and will never use surveillance technology enabled through Google and Meta’s paid ad systems. These systems enable advertisers to track users across multiple platforms for weeks. Marketers that engage in this surveillance-based ad tracking actively participate in this system by choosing to put Google or Meta’s tracking codes on their sites–users, however, do not actively consent. ComplexTraumaConsultant.com does not engage in any form of surveillance, and there are no tracking codes on this site.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this site, WordPress’ system collects the data shown in the comments form and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. This is automated through WordPress and not something ComplexTraumaConsultant.com is actively involved in.

An anonymized string created from the commenter’s email address (also called a “hash”) is generally provided to WordPress’ comment collaborator, an organization called Gravatar, to see if the commenter is using the Gravatar service. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After approval of a comment, the commenter’s Gravatar profile picture is visible to the public next to the comment. Finally, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Embedded Content

This site includes embedded content (videos, images, social feeds, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the user has visited the original website hosting the content.

The embedded 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 particular website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on this site, you will have the option for the site to save your name, email address, and website with the use of WordPress system 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 are active for one year.

If you visit this site’s shopping cart login page, a temporary cookie is set by WordPress to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when the visitor closes their browser.

When a visitor logs in, WordPress automatically sets up several cookies to save login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If “Remember Me” is selected, login will persist for two weeks. If a visitors gets logged out of their account, the login cookies are removed.

Password Reset

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. ComplexTraumaConsultant.com does not see or have your login information–this is all handled automatically via WordPress.

Retained Data

If you leave a public-facing comment on a blog post, that comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. For users that register on this website, the user’s personal information is automatically stored in that person’s user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (WordPress does not allow usernames to be changed however). The website administrator can also see a list of registered users for the site.

Your Rights

If a user has an account on this site or has left comments here, an exported file of this personal data can be requested and exported. Users can also request that ComplexTraumaConsultant.com erases any personal data WordPress is holding. This does not include any data required for legal purposes.