Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on: 14 March, 2024

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

This Privacy Policy is prepared in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) (“GDPR“).

We will use Your Personal Data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Urbanist Wanderer. Reference to Urbanist Wanderer in this manner does not confer and/or refer to any incorporated commercial company status (or any other equivalent) in law.
• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• Country refers to: Malaysia
• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Display Name means any identifier voluntarily chosen by You and separate from your legal personal identity to represent You on this Website.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Website and its displayed content.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Subscription means the designated service notifying the availability of newly published content on the Website.
• Third-Party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account in order to use the Service, or to share the Website’s content via the respective Third-Party Social Media Service.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to Urbanist Wanderer, accessible from https://urbanistwanderer.com.
• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Personal Details;
• Usage Data;
• Tracking Technologies and Cookies.

Personal Details

While using Our Website, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information (“Personal Details“) that can be used to contact or identify You, solely for the following purpose:

• Maintaining Subscription to this Website.
• Enabling You to leave comments on the content of this Website.

Personal Details collected on this Website are limited to:

• Email address; and
• Your name.

The Personal Details as set out above are collected only with your full and voluntary consent. You are free to refuse to provide the said Personal Details. You are also allowed to provide a name for display purposes that does not correlate to your legal name.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons: Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

• Type: Session Cookies
• Administered by: Us
• Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

• Type: Persistent Cookies
• Administered by: Us
• Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

• Type: Persistent Cookies
• Administered by: Us
• Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

Interaction with Third-Party Social Media Services

The Service does not require You, nor does it permit You, to create an account and log in to use the Service, whether through a built-in account creation function or through a Third-Party Social Media Service. However, usage of certain components of the Website may require you to interact with various Third-Party Social Media Services.

Third-Party Social Media Services and Comments

In order to enable You to leave comments on the content of this Website, you may be required to log in to the following Third-Party Social Media Service:

• WordPress.com.
• Facebook.

Sharing of Website Content on Third-Party Social Media Services

The Company allows You to share this Website’s content via the Jetpack Social function of the Jetpack plugin on the following Third-Party Social Media Services:

• Reddit;
• Pinterest;
• Facebook;
• Instagram;
• X (formerly known as “Twitter”);
• Mastodon;
• LinkedIn; and
• Flipboard

No Personal Data is collected via the use of the Jetpack Social function of the Jetpack plugin to share this Website’s content on the aforementioned Third-Party Social Media Services.

Further information on the functions of the Jetpack Social function of the Jetpack plugin may be accessed at the following link: https://jetpack.com/support/jetpack-social/

How will we use your Personal Data?

The Website may use your Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Website, including to evaluate information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive (Please see the “Analytics” section below).
• To manage Your Subscription: to manage Your registration as a subscriber of the Website. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to notifications on the availability of new content on the Website.
• To contact You: To contact You by email, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding response to comments, updates or informative communications related to the content of the Website.
• To provide the Comments service: We request that you provide your E-Mail and/or your chosen Name in order to allow you to access and utilise the Comments service.
• To provide the Gravatar service in the Comments service: 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.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
• With other users: When You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

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 participating in the Website’s Subscription, we also store the Personal Data that they have provided for that purpose. All users participating in the Subscription are free to cease their participation in the Subscription at any time, upon which their corresponding Personal Data will be deleted. Website administrators can also see, edit, and removed the Personal Data in question.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Website’s operating locations and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

At all times, you are able to cease your Subscription to the Website via clicking the “Unsubscribe” button in the confirmation e-mail you received when commencing your Subscription. Alternatively, you may contact us directly to request that we manually cease your Subscription. Cessation of your Subscription will result in the deletion of your Personal Details.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by contacting Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

We may be required to retain certain information pertaining to your Personal Data and/or including portions of your Personal Data in the event We have a legal obligation to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

We may disclose Your Personal Data with your consent that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Website
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 16 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Analytics

Google Analytics

We utilise Google Analytics, a third party service, to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Jetpack Analytics

We utilise the Jetpack Stats service offered by Jetpack that tracks the Website’s usage statistics through collection of your Usage Data.

Any piece of data explicitly identifying a specific user (IP address, WordPress.com ID, WordPress.com username, etc.) collected by Jetpack Stats is not visible to us.

For more information on how Jetpack uses your Personal Data, please visit: https://jetpack.com/support/jetpack-stats/.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us or seek clarification via the following means:

• By visiting this page on our website: https://urbanistwanderer.com/privacy-policy.
• By contacting us at the official X (formerly known as Twitter) profile of this Website: https://twitter.com/UrbyWanderer.