Last Updated: 5 June 2025
Your privacy is important to us at deanusher.com (“Dean Usher”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://deanusher.com, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://deanusher.com.
This website is owned and operated by Dean Usher.
2. Information We Collect and How We Use It
We collect information in a few different ways to operate effectively and provide you with the best experience on our Site.
a. Information You Provide to Us:
- Comments: When you leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as your name and email address), your IP address, and browser user agent string. This helps us with spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (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 approval of your comment, your profile picture (if you use Gravatar) is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
- Contact Forms: If you contact us using a contact form, we will collect the information you provide in that form, such as your name, email address, and message content. We use this information solely to respond to your inquiries or requests.
b. Information We Collect Automatically:
- Website Usage Data (Google Analytics): We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. This data may include your IP address (which Google Analytics may anonymise), browser type, operating system, referring URLs, device information, and pages visited. We use this information to analyse trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements around the Site, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole to improve our website and services. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognising you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser or by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
- Log Data and Security: Our servers and security plugins may automatically log standard data provided by your web browser. This data may include your IP address, browser type and version, the pages you visit on our Site, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details about your visit. This information is primarily used for security purposes, such as monitoring for suspicious activity, preventing unauthorised access, and ensuring the stability and security of our Site.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
- What are cookies? Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.
- How we use cookies: We use cookies to help us analyse web traffic, improve website functionality, and understand user preferences (e.g., through Google Analytics). Some cookies are essential for the website to function correctly.
- Your choices regarding cookies: You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site. For more information on how to manage cookies, please refer to your browser’s help documentation.
3. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this Site may include embedded content. 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. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of these third-party websites for more information.
4. Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. However, we may share your information with third-party service providers in the following situations:
- Google Analytics: As described above, for website analytics.
- Spam Detection Services: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (e.g., Akismet or similar services used by WordPress) to prevent spam.
- Gravatar Service: If you use Gravatar, your email hash is sent to their service to display your profile picture.
- Email Service Providers: If you submit a contact form or if the site sends notifications (e.g., password resets), the information may pass through email service providers.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
5. How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
- Contact Form Submissions: We retain information submitted through contact forms for as long as necessary to address your inquiry and for our records, unless you request its deletion.
- Analytics Data: Data collected by Google Analytics is retained according to Google’s policies. We typically review aggregated data and do not focus on individual user data retention within Analytics.
- Security Logs: Security logs containing IP addresses may be retained for a period necessary to ensure the security of our Site, typically ranging from a few weeks to several months.
For users who register on our website (if any feature for registration is enabled), we 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.
6. Data Security
We use various security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Your Data Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to Access: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us (e.g., if you have an account or have left comments).
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You can 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.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.
8. Third-Party Websites
Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
9. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold as required by applicable law). We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
Contact Form on the Contact page.