Our website address is: https://cwpainters.co.za. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website.
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information they enter in the comment form, along with their IP address and browser user agent. We use this information to detect and prevent spam.
We may share an anonymized string (hash) created from your email address with the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can view their privacy policy here.
After your comment is approved, your profile picture (if you use Gravatar) becomes visible to the public next to your comment.
If you upload images to our website, do not include photos with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download these images and extract location information from them.
When you submit information through our contact form, we use it only to respond to your enquiry. We do not sell or share your information with third parties, except when required by law.
When you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies store your information for one year for your convenience.
When you visit our login page, we create a temporary cookie to check whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, we set several cookies to store your login details and screen display preferences:
Login cookies last for 2 days.
Screen options cookies last for 1 year.
If you select “Remember Me”, your login stays active for 2 weeks.
Logging out removes all login cookies.
Articles on our site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, or articles. Embedded content behaves the same way as if you visited the external website directly.
These external websites may collect data, use cookies, track your interactions, or monitor how you engage with the embedded content.
We use analytics tools to track how visitors interact with our website. This information helps us enhance the user experience and improve website performance. We process all analytics data anonymously, so it never identifies individual users.
We do not share your data with third parties unless it is necessary for website functionality (for example, spam detection) or required by law.
Comments: We store comments and their associated metadata indefinitely. This allows us to recognize your future comments and approve them automatically, without sending them to moderation.
Registered Users: When you register an account, we store the personal details you provide in your user profile. You can view, edit, or delete your information at any time, except for your username. Website administrators can also access and update this information.
If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you can request:
A copy of the personal data we hold about you
Deletion of any personal data we have stored
We may retain certain data for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
We check visitor comments using an automated spam detection service.
