Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://osaeinaim.com. Osa Einaim (עושה עיניים) is a knitting and crochet blog, operated by Liat Bentov. I am a crochet teacher and designer, leaving in Israel.

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

When visitors choose to contact me through the contact form on my workshops page plug-in, I’ll get a message with the data they chose to enter – their name, phone number, email address and a few words regarding their request.
I keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, until I manage to contact them with a respond to their request, but I do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.

also, when visitors choose to get email notifications about new posts on the blog, the email address they enter is being saved to the blog system (Jetpack) and uses only for the purpose of sending them email notification when a new blog post is updeted.

Cookies

Cookies

WordPress system 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

My site uses Google  analytics, Facebook pixsel & Jetpack plug-in to analyze users actions in the blog, in order to learn and improve the blog’s properties, and for remarketing purposes. if visitors would like to be left out of the analytics tracking, they can contact me by mail (osaeinaim@gmail.com).

Who we share your data with

The only data shared by our site is the analytics data, as described in the analytics section above.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely in the wordpress system. 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 the wordpress website (if any), the wordpress system  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.

Email address for visitors who choose to register for new blog post updates by mail, is also kept indefinitely, for as long as the blog will be running.

Contact form entries are kept for six months, and analytics records for a year.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this wordpress 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 the wordpress system will erase any personal data they hold about you. This does not include any data they are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you sent details on a form and you’d like your data to be deleted, we’ll be happy to assist – contact us regarding this by email to Osaeinaim.gmail.com.

If your registered to get updates on new posts you can unsubscribe through the system, or by requesting it by email to Osaeinaim@gmail.com.

Where we send your data

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

Your contact information

For any issues you can contact me by email: Liat Bentov – Osaeinaim@gmail.com.

Additional information

How we protect your data

To protect your data security measures such as two factor authentication is used; and staff training in data protection.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not receive any data about users from any third party.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Profiling is done from time to time for marketing reasons – visitors on the blog can be “marked” by the facebook pixel system, so we can advertise to them on the facebook platform after they showed interest in the subject by entering the blog.

The Akismet Anti-Spam plug-in, used on the blog is collecting information about visitors who leave comment on this site. the information they gather depends on the definitions of the Akismet IP for each site, but generally includes the comment address, IP identifier, site address, and additional data provided by the visitor who made the comment – as name, email address and the comment itself.