Privacy Policy

Who are we?

We are UpliftMyMind.com, a motivational blog aimed at providing inspiration and personal development tools. Our website address is: https://upliftmymind.com. 

Comments

We value your feedback and interactions. When you leave comments on UpliftMyMind.com, we gather the data shown in the comments form, your IP address and your browser user agent string, to aid in spam detection.

For further transparency, an anonymized string created from your email address (known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to ascertain if you are using it. You can find the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After the approval of your comment, your profile picture becomes visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

In the event you upload images to the website, we recommend avoiding the inclusion of embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to protect your privacy. Visitors to UpliftMyMind.com have the ability to download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

 If you leave a comment on UpliftMyMind.com, you can opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. This feature enhances your user experience, so you don’t have to re-enter your details every time you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Upon visiting our login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Upon logging in, several cookies will be set up to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me“, your login will persist for two weeks. Once you log out, the login cookies will be removed.

When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie holds no personal data, only indicating the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on UpliftMyMind.com may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites. This content behaves as if you were visiting the original website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and observe your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

To ensure the security of UpliftMyMind.com and our community, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How long we retain your data?

 If you leave a comment, both the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments, rather than holding them in a moderation queue.

For registered users of UpliftMyMind.com (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (username cannot be changed). Website administrators also have access to this information and can edit it.

What rights you have over your data

As a user of UpliftMyMind.com, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. Furthermore, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. However, we must retain certain data for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

To ensure the security of UpliftMyMind.com and our community, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.