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Dark Octopus Studios
Handcrafted Leather Accessories, Coaching & Education

Privacy Policy

Who we are

Dark Octopus Studios is a registered Australian business operating online from its international headquarters in Sydney, Australia. Our website address is: https://darkoctopusstudios.com

We abide by the Australian Privacy Act 1988.

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

If you submit your information via a contact form, we will collect your name and contact details so that we can respond to your enquiry. We will also log your IP address for security purposes to help us protect against abuse of 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

We may track the way you use our website including the pages you visit, the time you spend reading each page to help improve the design, layout, and content of the site in future.

We use Google Analytics Demographics & Interests to better understand how to serve our customers. You may opt out of this through your browser’s Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means. See https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ for more information.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell or pass on your data to any third parties unless required to do so by Australian law.

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

We only use your contact information to deliver information, products and services you have requested from us. We do not share your contact information with third parties unless required to do so by Australian law.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We avoid collecting and storing any more sensitive information than is necessary for us to provide our products and services to you. In particular, we do not store payment card information, and process all payments using secure encrypted services. Only authorised administrators from Dark Octopus Studios have access to your data, and all staff access is logged for security and compliance purposes.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If we believe that your data has been accessed without authorisation, we will attempt to promptly notify you by email, in addition to complying with the Notifiable Data Breach requirements under the Australian Privacy Act 1988.