Who we are
Our website address is: https://peterdschwartz.com
Bot & Spam Detection
Our primary goal is to provide you an experience on our website that is as secure and protected as possible. To do this, we use a security feature that blocks IP addresses of known bots from interacting with the site.
A Captcha service is on this site to block spam form submissions. Read more about their privacy policy here.
A security service is on this site to block potentially malicious activity. This may include reading IP addresses for threat detection, usernames, login attempts, and actions like comments and setting changes. This information is stored locally for 30 days and remotely for one year. Antibot Service: Collects IP addresses for threat detection and to prevent attacks, retaining logs for a maximum of 7 days unless malicious activity continues. Cookies: The plugin may add cookies to your browser.
Data We Inspect or Collect
- Contact details you entered into a Contact Form or a Newsletter signup
- IP address to mitigate form submission spam and by data breaches caused by malicious bots
- Google Analytics is on this site to track non-personally identifiable statistical traffic. Google uses Cookies; learn more about their use here. Note that Google Analytics 4 (GA4) IP addresses are used at collection time to determine city-level location information (country, city, latitude and longitude of city) and then discarded before data is logged in any data center or server.
How We Retain Data
Google must comply with data residency rules (when collecting data, Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses)
Contact Form submissions are purged after 60 days
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.
Cookies
Google Analytics uses Cookies; learn more about their use here.
Our Security application uses Cookies related to logged-in registered Users of the Website.
Ways We Communicate Changes
We will update this page
How We Safeguard Data
Computer safeguards
Physical access controls
Website and application security controls
How Website Users Can Delete Data
Google’s databases for IP mitigation are inaccessible to the public or this site owner as a website administrator. You can contact Google directly to have all user data deleted.
You can also minimize data Google sends by: On your device log out of your Google accounts, Delete browsing history, Deleting internet cookies