TL;DR

the informal version of this page

  • We (the Waffling Taylors) or our parent company (RJJ Software Ltd) don’t collect any data on you via this website or the services offered here
  • We did used to use Google Analytics, but we have since stopped using it.

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  • The website is hosted on Netlify
  • We do use a third party to handle our commenting system - Disqus
    • With the exception of user submitted messages on the contact
  • We also use a third party to host and serve our podcast episodes: Transistor
  • We also embed content from YouTube content into some pages
    • However, we use the “No-Cookie” variant of the YouTube embed code
  • Some pages also include embedded content from Spotify
  • We also include some content from Twitter

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.wafflingtaylors.rocks, we are owned and operated by RJJ Software Ltd who are a company registered in England and Wales with company number: 11599743.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, all data collected (for example, visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, comment content, etc.) are collected by Disqus. Once approved by the site administrators, some of that data (for example, a username, an avatar image, and the comment data, etc.) will be displayed on the page that you commented on.

Please see Disqus’s privacy policy for details on how this data is handled.

User Submitted Contact Messages

When visitors elect to send a message on the contact page, they are electing to have the data from that message logged on Netlify’s servers - please see their privacy policy for details. The message will be stored there for up to 30 days, after which time it is automatically deleted.

Visitors submitting messages are asked to leave a name and a message. This data, as outlined above, is deleted after 30 days, but may be used in a podcast episode, a blog post, or promotional materials (i.e. Twitter and Facebook posts, videos, and live streams). Visitors are reminded that they are electing to this when leaving a message, and as required to inform Us as to whether we can use it in the above mention formats when submitting the message - unless it is explicitly mentioned, the message’s content could be used for any of the above mentioned formats.

Cookies

We (Waffling Taylors) or our parent (RJJ Software Ltd) do not collect cookie data from you or your web browser. However, the external services from which we embed content, may do so. Please see the section “Embedded content from other websites” for more details about the external services which are used.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. The third party services where content is embedded from includes (and is limited to):

Clicking the above links will load the privacy policies of those third parties. Please direct any questions regarding the points in those privacy policies to the relevant companies,

Who we share your data with

We (Waffling Taylors) or our parent (RJJ Software Ltd) do not collect any data on you, as such we do not share any data on you with anyone. However, the external services that we make use of may share your data, see the above section “Embedded content from other websites”. As such, please direct any questions regarding your data, and how and whether it is shared to the relevant services.

How long we retain your data

Comment data is not stored at our site (aka https://wafflingtaylors.rocks/) for any period of time. All comment data is handled by our commenting third party (aka “Disqus”), please review and send any requests for information to them. The Disqus privacy policy can be accessed at https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy/ As mentioned above, we also use Transistor and SoundCloud as part of this website.

As mentioned above, any user submitted messages (via the contact page) will be stored for 30 days before being deleted. They may also be used in podcast episodes, blog posts, or promotional materials.

What rights you have over your data

As we do not collect any data on you, please direct any questions or comments regarding control of that data towards the owners and operators of those services - please see “Embedded content from other websites” for details.

Any requests to remove user submitted contact data can be sent via the contact page, Twitter, or Facebook.