Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how Scratch and Dent Appliances (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares personal information collected from visitors (“you” or “your”) of our website [https://scratchanddentappliances.co.za].
Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. 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, please ensure that you avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included, as visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment and will last for one year.
Additionally, when you log in, temporary cookies are set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. These cookies contain no personal data and are discarded when you close your browser. We 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. An additional cookie is saved in your browser when you edit or publish an article, which expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) from other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the 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.
Who We Share Your Data With If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How Long We Retain Your Data If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely for automatic approval of any follow-up comments. For users who 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. However, this does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data is Sent Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Information If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our practices, please contact us at [insert contact email or address].
Changes to This Privacy Policy We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We advise you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.