Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 26, 2023

At Davao Catholic Herald, accessible from DavaoCatholicHerald.com, one of our main priorities is your privacy as our visitor. So we have outlined this Privacy Policy to inform you regarding what data is collected and how they may be used.

Personal Information We Collect

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.

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.

Contact Forms

Your name and email address are collected when you send a message through our contact forms. This information is used only to respond to your inquiry.

If you contact us directly by email, we may receive additional information about you, such as your phone number, the contents of the message, attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

Third-party Use of Personal Information

We are currently using third-party service providers, which may use your personal or device information, to service various aspects of this website. These third-party service providers are the following:

WordPress

This website is made with WordPress software (WordPress.org). Please review their Privacy Policy if you want to know how they manage visitor data: https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/.

Google Services

Google Analytics – a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Analytics helps us understand how our visitors use Davao Catholic Herald.
Google Search Console – a web service by Google which allows us to check indexing status, search queries, and crawling errors and optimize website visibility. We use this primarily as a website maintenance tool.
Google Adsense – a program run by Google through which website publishers, such as Davao Catholic Herald, serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements.

For more information on the data practices of Google, please read their Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Cookies

Davao Catholic Herald uses cookies, which are small data files that may include an anonymous unique identifier and are stored on your browser, to track the activity on our website. Cookies also help optimize user experience by customizing our web page content based on your browser type or other information. Below are some instances of when cookies are used:

If you leave a comment on the site, you may opt to save 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.
AdSense sends a cookie to the browser when a user visits a page that shows ads. If the browser accepts the cookie, the cookie is stored on the browser.

You may instruct your browser to refuse all cookies. Furthermore, existing cookies may be deleted at any time via your browser. However, by deactivating the setting of cookies in your browser, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

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 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.

Log Files

Log files record anonymous visitor data when they visit websites. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, operating system, browser type, date and time stamp, referring website, pages you viewed, and other statistics. These data help in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, so please check this page periodically. By continuing to use this site after the modifications are posted, you hereby consent to the updated Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Contact Us

For questions related to this Privacy Policy, please get in touch by email at desk@davaocatholicherald.com.