Privacy Policy
At Project Management Column, we do everything possible to protect your data and inform you about how your personally identifiable information is being used online.
Project Management Column — Who we are
PM column is a project management trends gallery designed as a source of inspiration for business leaders. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to those who visit the https://www.pmcolumn.com website, leave comments, subscribe to our blog and notifications.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Newsletters
We collect your name and email as a means to serve you content after you subscribe to Project Management Column. By filling in your personal information in the Subscription box, you give your consent to receiving updates from our project management news feed.
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 form
You can reach us via Contact page by filling in your Name and Email. We collect this information solely as a means to establish communication with you and do not disclose your data to third parties.
Cookies
We use cookies to learn more about your preferences, taking into account previous and current website activity. By means of cookies, we collect aggregate data about website traffic and interactions to use insights from this data to better our tool. The use of cookies also enables us to consistently improve the services we provide.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Project Management Column uses only anonymized data and web analytics services which provide such. Each tool places cookies on your device to help distinguish between different visitors and to analyze how users use the website. The cookies placed on your device by Google are used to collect certain information, such as the date and time that a user visits the website, the number of times a user has visited the website and the website that has directed the user to the website. More information on the use of cookies can be found on their websites.
Information we collect automatically
We may automatically collect information about you, your computer, your tablet, or mobile device when you access our Site. For example, we may log your operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on our Site as well as broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location) based on your IP address and GPS location where you provide your consent. We collect this information about you using cookies to discover more about your preferences and improve our services.
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 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.