# AQUARYUS.NET PRIVACY POLICY
**Last updated** [7/8/2024]
## SUMMARY:
I respect YOUR privacy and this policy explains how I collect and treat information you give me. You won’t find complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. I didn’t change all the we/us to I/me because 1) I’m the sole admin and 2) this is a bunch of bullshit. I have ZERO desire to trick you into sharing your data so I can sell it. I am web consultant by day so I’ll update the policy if a new feature might be added that may collect your data.
I created this site to showcase my art. Pure and simple but the powers that be made it complicated….so here it goes…
### Our policy covers the U.S. Privacy Notice:
– Why we value your privacy
– How we collect information
– What information we hold
– Where we store your information
– What we use your information for
– Who’s responsible for your information at our company
– Who has access to information about you
– The steps we take to keep your information private
– How to complain
– Changes to the policy
### Why we value your privacy
We value your privacy as much as we do our own, so we’re committed to keeping your personal and business information safe. We ask for only the bare minimum from our customers. We’ll never use your personal information for any reason other than why you gave it, and we’ll never give anyone access to it unless we’re forced to by law.
### How we collect information
We ask for contact information including your name, email address, and phone number, on our website so that we can reply to your inquiry.
We ask for your email address when you sign up for one of our newsletters.
We ask for your account and contact information when you hire or buy something from us.
We use cookies offer a customized browsing experience, measure and improve performance of our website, provide customer support, and deliver personalized advertising. You can manage your cookie and privacy preferences.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Occasionally, we might receive your contact information from one of our partners. If we do, we protect it in exactly the same way as if you give it to us directly.
### What information we store
When you contact us by email or through our website, we store your name and email address, plus your phone number, social media username, and the company you work for, if you’ve given them to us.
If you sign up for a newsletter, we store your email address.
When you buy something from us, we store your name, email address, phone number, and a delivery address.
If you do business with us, we store your business name and bank details and keep records of the invoices we send you and the payments you make. All purchases are processed by [company], our e-commerce platform and we never have access to your credit card information.
### Where we store your information
If you sign up for a newsletter, we store your email address in Mailchimp, which is the marketing platform we prefer.
When you buy something, your information is stored in Ecwid, our e-commerce platform.
If we do business, we store your information in Wave, our accounts software.
### How we use your information
We use your contact information to operate our business and deliver services, including but not limited to providing security services, payment processing and customer support, and performing other activities related to our business and services.
We may use your contact information to offer some services through our business partners, such as domain registrars, hosting provides, email clients, and payment processors.
We occasionally use your contact information to send you details of our products and services. When we do, you have the option to unsubscribe from these communications and we won’t send them to you again. We might also email or phone you about our products and services, but if you tell us not to, we won’t get in touch again. We will use your information to send you invoices, statements, or reminders.
### Who’s responsible for your information at our company
Ryan Tischler, our Owner, is responsible for the security of your information. You can contact them by email at privacy@ryry.design or by phone 213 261 1134 if you have concerns about the information we store.
### Who has access to information about you
When we store information in our own systems, only the people who need it have access. Our management team have access to everything you’ve provided, but individual employees have access to only what they need to do their job.
### The steps we take to keep your information private
Where we store your information in third-party services, we restrict access only to people who need it. We store passwords in OneDrive, in a Personal vault, use a different password for each service, and never use the same password twice. The computers we use are all encrypted and protected by a passcode or fingerprint access. These computers ask for authentication whenever they’re started or after 2 minutes of inactivity. Our mobile devices are also protected by a fingerprint or facial recognition.
### How to complain
We take complaints very seriously. If you’ve any reason to complain about the ways we handle your privacy, please contact Ryan by email at aquaryus att g mail dott com
If we change the contents of this policy, those changes will become effective the moment we publish them on our website.
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