The DNA Connection – Melanie Dunstan Genetic Genealogist
Our website address is: https://www.thednaconnection.com.au and https://www.thednaconnection.com.au
Contact Details:
Email: mel@thednaconnection.com.au
What Personal Data we collect and why we collect it
Newsletter Subscribers
We use Mailchimp to manage our subscriber mailing list and send our email campaigns. We collect your name and email address when you opt-in to receive our eNewsletters. You can unsubscribe yourself at any time, from the link in the footer of all emails. You can also update your preferences and personal details from a link in the footer of all emails.
We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Blog 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.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Media
If you upload images to the website (for example, in blog posts or comments), 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
If you fill in and send a message to us via the contact form on our Contact Us page, any information you enter will be stored temporarily to enable us to receive and action the message. By using the contact form, you are consenting to share the information you send to us. We keep contact form submissions for customer service purposes, but do not use the information submitted for marketing purposes.
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.
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
We use Google Analytics and WordPress plugin Count Per Day statistics to track how visitors interact with our website, analyse where traffic is generated from and collect information related to general site engagement. Our web host, GoDaddy, may also collect some anonymous analytics data.
What rights you have over your data
If you have a member account on this site, or have left blog 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.
Change in Privacy Policy
We modify this policy at any time, so please return periodically to review our privacy policy.
Your contact information
If you have any privacy-specific concerns about the use of your personal information, please contact Mel via Email mel@thednaconnection.com.au
Last updated: 9 Aug 2019