Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://pengyuanzhao.com. We operate the website (the “service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information when you use our service.

We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

We use your personal information for providing and improving the service. By using the service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect it

Log Data

We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our service (“log data”). This log data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

Cookies

We use cookies to collect information. Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. For more general information on cookies, see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.

It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser. Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site.

We use Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage. You can opt-out of Google Analytics with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Contact Forms

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us via contact forms with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“personal information”) may include, but is not limited to name and email address.

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/

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.

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.

Who We Share Your Data with

We do not share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Contact form entries are kept for six months.

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.

What Rights You Have over Your Data

If you have submitted your personal information via contact forms, you can withdraw your consent for the storage and the processing of your personal information. You can send your request here: https://pengyuanzhao.com/consent-management/.

If you have submitted your personal information via contact forms, 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. To exercise the rights, contact us at info@pengyuanzhao.com.

Where We Send Your Data

The hosting service of this web site is provided by bluehost. BlueHost.com has been compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) since May 25, 2018. You can learn more here: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/gdpr.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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.

We invite you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Information

Email: info@pengyuanzhao.com