Saintel Daily

Privacy Policy

At Saintel Daily, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency about the information we collect, how it is used, and your rights in relation to that data. This Privacy Policy outlines our data handling practices across all services, including advertisements, analytics, user interaction features, and third-party integrations.

1. Advertising

Eligibility: Advertising services are available exclusively to sites on our Premium and Professional plans.

Data Collected:
We collect and transmit the following information, as available from the user’s browser, to our advertising partners (including Automattic’s Demand Partners):

  • IP address
  • Geolocation (derived from IP)
  • User agent
  • Operating system
  • Device type
  • Unique user ID (stored in cookies for 1 year)
  • Current URL
  • IAB interest categories

Retention:
Log data is retained for 30 days. Unique user IDs are retained for up to 1 year.

Tracking Includes:

  • Ad impressions
  • Click events
  • Video ad interactions (pause, play, mute, completion)
  • Delivery of targeted advertisements and anonymized performance statistics

2. User Engagement Features

Comment Likes

Eligibility: Available to logged-in WordPress.com users.
Data Collected:

  • WordPress.com user ID and username
  • Site-specific user ID
  • IP address, browser info, timestamp, blog ID, device details (for mobile users)
    Tracked Activity:
  • Likes on individual comments

Post Likes

Eligibility: Logged-in WordPress.com users only.
Data Collected:

  • IP address
  • WordPress.com user ID and username
  • Site and post IDs
  • Browser and device information
    Tracked Activity:
  • Post likes

Comments and Jetpack Comments

Data Collected:

  • Name, email, site URL (if submitted)
  • IP address, timestamp, comment content
  • Metadata including Gravatar hash and comment status
  • Jetpack IFrame: site, post, user, and comment-specific identifiers
  • If Akismet is enabled, data is processed for spam detection

Cookie Usage:
Cookies store the commenter’s details for convenience (1-year duration).
Data Synced:
Comment data, spam classification (if applicable)

3. Analytics

Google Analytics

Eligibility: Available on Premium and Professional plans.
Data Collected:

  • Page views, video plays
  • For WooCommerce-enabled sites: order numbers, product data, costs, and quantities (if enabled)
    User Control:
  • Site owners may enable IP anonymization

4. Search Functionality

Eligibility: Professional plan only
Data Collected:

  • Search queries and filters used by the visitor

5. Sharing Tools

Data Collected When Sharing via Email:

  • Name and email (from logged-in account if available)
  • IP address, user agent, message content
  • Submitted data may be processed through Akismet and/or Google reCAPTCHA for spam detection

6. Subscriptions

Data Collected:

  • Subscriber email
  • Post or comment ID
  • Server and HTTP request data
  • IP address, request URI

Tracked Activity:

  • Subscription preferences via cookies (retained for 347 days)

7. Cookies and Session Tracking

We use cookies to:

  • Maintain login sessions
  • Store user preferences
  • Track user interactions with site features

Cookie Duration:

  • Login cookies: 2 days to 2 weeks
  • Display preferences: 1 year
  • Comment cookies: 1 year
  • Editing cookies: 1 day

8. Embedded Content and Third-Party Services

Articles may include embedded media (e.g., YouTube videos, external images) which behave as though the user visited the originating site directly. These third-party services may collect data, use cookies, and perform their own tracking.

9. Data Retention

  • Comments and their metadata are stored indefinitely
  • Registered users can view, edit, or delete their profile information at any time
  • Website administrators also have access to this data

10. Your Data Rights

You may request:

  • A copy of the personal data we hold about you
  • Deletion of your personal data, excluding data retained for legal or security reasons

Submit requests through our contact form.

11. Data Sharing and Security

Visitor data, including comments, may be screened through automated spam detection services. We do not sell your personal data.

12. Copyright and DMCA Policy

Fair Use Disclaimer:
Content on this site may include copyrighted material used under the “Fair Use” provisions of the Copyright Act (Section 107). Usage is limited to commentary, criticism, education, and research.

Ownership and Attribution:

  • All images, videos, and articles remain the property of their original copyright holders
  • We embed YouTube videos using legally allowed methods
  • We do not host copyrighted video content on our servers

If you believe any content on Saintel Daily infringes your intellectual property rights, please contact us through the site’s contact form. We will address valid removal requests promptly.

For additional inquiries, permissions, or to report a data issue, please contact us at:
📧 privacy@sainteldaily.com