Create an Account or Sign in Email Confirm Email Password Confirm Password First Name Last Name Nickname Mini-bio (optional) Visual Text By creating an account you are agreeing to the Privacy Policy. Privacy Policy Who we are Our website address is: https://www.acrosshub.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, 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 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 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. If 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. 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 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. 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. Your contact information Your privacy is important to us. When you choose to provide us with information about yourself, we recognise that you trust us to act in a responsible manner. At all times, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with current UK GDPR law and ICO recommendations. Additional information How we protect your data We have procedures and security features in place to keep your information secure once we receive it. We use a range of technical and organisational measures to safeguard access to and use of, your personal information. These include hardware encryption and password protection, file encryption and password protection, anti-virus and anti-malware software deployment, physical access controls and staff training. What data breach procedures we have in place We have a process to inform affected individuals about a breach when their rights and freedoms are at high risk. We know we must inform affected individuals without undue delay. We know who the relevant supervisory authority for our processing activities is. What third parties we receive data from We try preventing dealing with data from third parties in this website. We ask all using acrosshub.com to refrain from posting copyrighted material to the group (e.g., books) and we do regular checks to make sure this rule is being followed. We ask those wanting to post information that may or may not be copyright protected to post a link to them outside the group. Industry regulatory disclosure requirements We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so, or if we have to enforce or apply our terms of use or other agreements in place. We won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, future market research or commercial purposes, and we don’t pass on your details to other websites or put your personal information in the public domain. ×
