Data Privacy Policy

Who we are

Happy Cat Technologies is an IT small business located in the beautiful Front Range community of Loveland, Colorado. At Happy Cat Technologies, respectful treatment of your personal data is paramount. We value data privacy, and we do our utmost to insure your visit is safe.

Our website address is: https://happycattech.com.

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. Included in that data is 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. That is because any visitors to the website can download images. After that, they can extract any location data from images downloaded from this website.

Contact forms

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 visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data, when you close your browser you destroy it.

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. By selecting “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out of your account deletes these cookies.

Whenever you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Data privacy and 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

This site uses Google Analytics tools. Please visit the Google technologies partner sites link, https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, for disclosure on what data Google Analytics tools collects and how it uses that data. Some of the things collected are country from which you visited, browser type, general device type (mobile or desktop), and other anonymized analytics of that nature.

Who we share your data with

Because your data privacy is very important to Happy Cat Technologies, we do not share your data, other than as listed above. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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. Because we care about your data privacy, you may 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.

Your contact information

Visitors may contact the owner of this site via the contact form at https://happycattech.com/index.php/contact/.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We protect the data on this site using the latest information security techniques and procedures recognized in the information technology industry. This includes regular monitoring of the site and server for any unusual activity and resolution of such activity via remedial action as necessary. We also perform regular backups of data to insure that data is secure from loss.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Currently, no user data is being retained. However, because we do take data privacy seriously, we proactively attempt to prevent data breaches by detecting nefarious activity, and assisting those visitors engaging in such nefarious activity with complimentary scans and contagion removal, as necessary, using industry standard Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.

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What third parties we receive data from

We analyze anonymized traffic on our site using Google Analytics.

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

We use industry standard automated tools to perform intrusion detection, logging and remediation. Hence any potential attacks on the server or website result in the logging of details such as:

  • the threat actor’s IP address,
  • the time and date,
  • text of the request,
  • browser type, etc.,

We retain such information for an indefinite period of time.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Not Applicable