Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.michellesantiqueappraisals.com. Michelle’s Antique Appraisals. Formerly known as Michelle Knows Antiques

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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 approval of 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 images on the website.

Contact forms

We will not keep any contact information unless you are signing up for the newsletter. I do not sell or share email contacts with anyone.

Cookies

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. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

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.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

We do not share data with anyone, knowingly. Other than through the analytics which lets us know how many people come to the appraisal site and the pages most visited.

How long we retain your data

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

For users that register on our website (if any), 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.

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 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We do not sell or use any personal data. If you sign-up for the newsletter, this is the only time we use your information. We will be in contact about once a month with articles, antique shop specials, sales, new inventory, and coupons.

Additional information

How we protect your data

It is stored on our server for the above stated lengths of time. We do not collect sensitive data on this site and all payments go through Paypal or are called into the shop for processing.

What third parties we receive data from

To the best of my knowledge we receive nothing more than how many people come on to the site and what pages they go to.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We don’t profile and we don’t make any automated decisions.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

When I figure out the answer to this question I will put it in here. Rules, rules, rules.