Who we are
We are Globally Heated, a podcast and blog with the goal of educating, entertaining, and energizing people around disaster, climate, related social issues, and everything in between.
Our website address is: globallyheated.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
Contact forms are used when you wish to contact us. Any information included in contact forms will be used only to respond to contact requests and may be stored for such purposes. Please do not include any sensitive information within the contact form fields.
Our Contact Form on the Contact page of our website was created through WPForms, access their privacy policy here.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We may collect statistics about user behavior on our website in order to understand and improve performance and accessibility for you, our visitors. No personally-identifying information will be shared outside of Globally Heated, as described below. Globallyheated.com uses MonsterInsights to collect statistics, their privacy policy can be found here.
Who we share your data with
No personally-identifying information will be shared outside of Globally Heated and pursuant tools used by the Globally Heated team. If you have subscribed to receive update alerts on the website or used our contact form to reach out to us, you may receive periodic emails from our team. If you do not wish to receive these emails, you may opt out.
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.