All the Legal Stuff

Disclaimer,

Disclosure,

Privacy,

Copyright

Disclaimer

The information on this website should not be construed as constituting legal, financial, or medical advice.

You should not rely upon the writing or information on this website as a basis for making any business, legal, or any other decisions.

Northern Virginia Insider tries to keep the information it presents as accurate and up-to-date as possible, but Northern Virginia Insider makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the comprehensiveness, accuracy, reliability or suitability of the information on this website or the use of this information with regard to your life, and with regard to other products or services. You use the material on this website at your own risk.

Northern Virginia Insider will not be liable for any false, inaccurate, inappropriate or incomplete information presented on the website.

Limited Liability

Any views and opinions expressed on this blog (for instance, in comments) belong solely to the original authors of those opinions and cannot necessarily be attributed to Northern Virginia Insider. Views and comments expressed on this blog do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Northern Virginia Insider.

Affiliate Disclosures

From time to time, I will link to products on Amazon or other websites if I believe it will be helpful to my readers. Northern Virginia Insider participates in the Amazon Affiliates program. If readers click on these affiliate links and purchase products through the link, I may receive a small commission for the referral. This commission comes at no cost to you.

I have no part in creating or selling the products linked but I stand behind my recommendations as I have used the specific products or very similar versions in the past with positive results. I would never recommend a product just for profit.

There is no obligation to click on any of these links.

Privacy

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on Northern Virginia Insider (NorthernVirginiaInsider.com), 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

Our contact form requests information including your name, email address, and website. We do not share this information with any other parties.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on Northern Virginia Insider 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.

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

Who we share your data with

Any information that a visitor privately submits to Northern Virginia Insider is not shared with any other parties. If a visitor subscribes to the blog or joins the email list, the information submitted is not shared with third parties. Any comments that a visitor posts publicly are shared publicly. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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 left comments on this site, 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.

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

Our contact form requests information including your name, email address, and website. We do not share this information with any other parties.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on mysite 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.

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

Who we share your data with

Any information that a visitor privately submits to Northern Virginia Insider is not shared with any other parties. If a visitor subscribes to the blog or joins the email list, the information submitted is not shared with third parties. Any comments that a visitor posts publicly are shared publicly. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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 left comments on this site, 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.

Copyright

All text and some of the images on www.northernvirginiainsider.com are copyrighted property. They may not be used or reproduced in any manner, shape, way or form  without the written permission of Northern Virginia Insider.

For any questions on content and intention, please contact us using the contact form.