Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

Hermenaria website is a project for creation process and multidisciplinary research in digital spaces. It develops services and products, free to use and share as well as accessible for fees and subject of Hermenaria project copyright, to navigate in a one’s personal own way in actual and future digital worlds.

We believe that analogies may be one of the basis for creation of fluid, elegant, useful and prosperous digital development. We make our project to invest in multidimensional, vivid and dynamic ways to explore and use digital spaces and personal navigation.

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use Hermenaria website.

Throughout this Privacy Policy we’ll refer to our website and other products and services collectively as “Services.”

You will find how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

Basic account information: We have basic information from you like an email address along with a username or name when you use some of our services such as subscriptions or paid content. Hermenaria website is a WordPress.com hosted website. A WordPress.com account may be required to access to some functions such as, for example, some payments as subscriptions and paid content, or to comments functions. If you do not have an account yet, you will be prompted to create one by WordPress.com. During the checkout process, you will be prompted to enter your email address, and if you already have a WordPress.com account associated with that email address, the purchase will be associated with that account. If you do not have an account, one will be created for you as part of the checkout process by WordPress.com.

If you create a WordPress.com account, it will be a separate account from Hermenaria website and will be managed by WordPress.com. You do not create an account on Hermenaria website, this will be your own WordPress.com account and you will refer to WordPress.com Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Hermenaria website collects the basic information like an email address or username to manage subscriptions and other paid content functions. 

Public profile information: If you have a WordPress.com account, we collect the information that you provide for your public profile on Hermenaria website as for example, your comments. Your public profile information is just that — public — so please keep that in mind when deciding what information you would like to include.

Payment and contact information: When you make a purchase through a WordPress.com account or directly on Hermenaria website, we will be provided with some information regarding the purchase. We may see your WordPress.com username, and email address as well as a product, subscription or donation you purchased and its amount.

For payments, you can make purchases directly on Hermenaria website or using your WordPress.com account. Hermenaria website does not collect any payment information when using third-party services payment processor like Stripe or PayPal to collect payments. These payment processors handle the payment transactions and Hermenaria website only facilitates the processing and management of services and products like the subscriptions, paid content and digital download products. The payment information is stored by the payment processor to enable the renewal of charges and allow you to make other purchases by using your WordPress.com account or directly on Hermenaria website.

Content information: You might provide us with information about you in email or comment (that includes biographic information about you, or any media or files you upload).

Communications with us

You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys, communicate with us about a support question, post a question in our public forums, or sign up for a newsletter. When you communicate with us via form, email, phone or comment, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications.

Other Information Entered on the Site: We may also collect other information that a visitor enters on the Site–such as a contact form submission, a search query, sites comments and other information that the visitor provides along with the comment.

Information We Automatically Collect

We also collect some information automatically:

Log information: We may collect the information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available about visitors to a Site, such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.

Transactional information: When you make a purchase through our services, we may collect information about the transaction, such as product details, purchase price, and the date and location of the transaction. This includes when you purchase something we sell.

Visitor Interactions: We collect information about a visitor’s interactions with a Site, including the ‘’likes’’ and ‘’ratings’’ left by visitors to a Site.

Usage information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, get insights on how people use our Services so we can make our Services better, and understand and make predictions about user retention.

Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of a visitor’s device from the IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, tally for our website how many people visit it from certain geographic regions.

Interactions through visitor’s WordPress.com site or blog: We collect some information about your interactions while you are logged in to your account with WordPress.com, such as your “Likes” and the fact that you commented on a post.

Information from Cookies and Other Technologies: Hermenaria website is a WordPress.com hosted website. For more information about the use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how visitors can control the use of cookies, please see WordPress.com and Automattic Cookie Policy.

How and Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you for the purposes listed below:

To provide our services.

To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve our services.

To market our services, measure and improve the effectiveness of our marketing. For example, by targeting our marketing messages to groups of our users, advertising our Services, analyzing the results of our marketing campaigns and understanding and forecasting user retention.

To protect our services, our users, and the public. For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with our legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of Hermenaria website and others, which may result in us, for example, terminating Services.

To fix problems with our services. For example, by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.

To customize the user experience. For example, to personalize your experience by serving you relevant notifications and advertisements for our services and recommending content.

To communicate with you. For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, share our news and updates on products, or keep you up to date on Hermenaria website; or to share with you offers, content and upcoming events that we think will be of interest to you. If you don’t want to hear from us, you can opt out of marketing communications at any time. (If you opt out, we’ll still send you important updates relating to your purchases like subscriptions.)

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account ; or

The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or

We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our services; to improve our services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our services; to communicate with you; to measure and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our services; and to personalize your experience ; or

You have given us your consent — for example, before we place certain cookies on your device and access and analyze them later on, as described in WordPress.com and Automattic Cookie Policy as Hermenaria website is a WordPress.com hosted website.

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy. These are spelled out below:

Independent contractors: We may disclose information about you to our independent contractors who need the information to help us provide our services or process the information on our behalf.

Third-party vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their Services to us, or to provide their Services to you. This includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you, those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g., by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns, and by placing ads to market our services); those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers); those that make tools to help us run our operations, other third-party tools that help us manage operations; and companies that make products available on our website, who may need information about you in order to, for example, provide technical or other support services to you.

Legal and regulatory requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.

To protect rights, property, and others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Hermenaria website, third parties, or the public at large.

Business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Hermenaria website goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.

With your consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction.

Aggregated or de-identified information: We may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified, so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you.

Published support requests: If you send us a request for assistance (for example, via a support email or one of our other feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to clarify or respond to your request, or to help us support other users.

Information Shared Publicly 

Information that you choose to make public is disclosed publicly.

That means information like your public profile WordPress.com account, comments, other content that you make public on Hermenaria website, such as, for example, your “Likes”.

Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share publicly.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information — and we’re not legally required to keep it.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

Limit the information that you provide

Limit access to information on your mobile device

Opt out of marketing communications

Set your browser to reject cookies

Your Rights

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including some US states and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

Right to Opt Out

We never directly sell your personal information in the conventional sense (i.e., for money).

We may share your information as necessary with our third-party service providers to provide our services to you.

We do not collect or process your sensitive (and potentially sensitive) personal information except where it is strictly necessary to provide you with our service, where the processing is not for the purpose.

Contacting Us About These Rights

If you use our Services with your WordPress.com account, you can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that WordPress.com offer, but if you aren’t able to or you’d like to contact us about one of the rights, scroll down to How to Reach Us to find out how to reach us.

When you contact us about one of your rights under this section, we will need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything. For example, if you are a user, we will need you to contact us from the email address associated with your account. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf by giving us written authorization. We may still require you to verify your identity with us.

Appeals Process for Rights Requests Denials

In some circumstances, we may deny your request to exercise one of these rights. For example, if we cannot verify that you are the account owner we may deny your request to access the personal information associated with your account. As another example, if we are legally required to maintain a copy of your personal information we may deny your request to delete your personal information.

In the event that we deny your request, we will communicate this fact to you in writing. You may appeal our decision by responding in writing to our denial email and stating that you would like to appeal. In the event that your appeal is also denied this information will be communicated to you in writing.

Controllers and Responsible Companies

Hermenaria website is a WordPress.com hosted website. Automattic’s Services are worldwide. Different Automattic companies are the controller (or co-controller) of personal information, which means that they are the company responsible for processing that information, based on the particular service and the location of the individual using their Services.

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights Section above, please contact Hermenaria website using an email: support@hermenaria.com

Other Things You Should Know

Transferring Information

Hermenaria website is a WordPress.com hosted website. Because WordPress.com and Automattic’s Services are offered worldwide, the information about you that they process when you use the Services in the EU may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who work for them or third-party data processors. This is required for the purposes listed in the How and Why We Use Information section of Automattic’s Privacy Policy.

When providing information about you to entities outside the EEA, as mentioned in their Privacy Policy, Automattic will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with their Privacy Policy as required by applicable law. These measures include entering into European Commission approved standard contractual arrangements with entities based in countries outside the EEA.

Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others

Ads appearing on any of our services may be delivered by advertising networks. Other parties may also provide analytics services via our Services. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us and other companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver ads that may be more targeted to your interests. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by Hermenaria website and does not cover the collection of information by any third-party advertisers or analytics providers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Hermenaria website may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. Hermenaria website encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

This Privacy Policy is based on Automattic Privacy Policy, available under a Creative Commons Sharealike License, and then applied to the Hermenaria website needs and functions.