Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://laurensm.com.
The website owner is: Laurens Martens

Our aim: Laurensm.com is a personal blog website with the aim of sharing free educational low-code development content based on the Microsoft Power Platform technology stack.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site 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.

By default commenting on blog posts is turned off for privacy reasons. Questions regarding blog content can be sent to Laurens’ Power Platform Community forum profile or LinkedIn account.

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.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site 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.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

This website uses the CookieYes plugin for cookie management and capturing cookie consent. More details can be found on the CookieYes pricacy policy page.

Analytics

This website does not use Google Analytics. High-level analytics and website insights are provided by the Jetpack Stats plugin. The plugin is configured to honour your DNT settings.

Source: Jetpack Stats privacy information
Any piece of data explicitly identifying a specific user (IP address, WordPress.com ID, WordPress.com username, etc.) is not visible to the site owner when using this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post.

Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used only for the purpose of powering this feature.

Plugin privacy information: Jetpack Stats privacy & data retention // Automatic privacy policy

Google fonts

This website uses the Astra theme and Elementor as a page builder. Google Fonts used throughout the website are stored locally via the Astra theme. Custom colors and fonts supplied by the Elementor plugin have been turned off.

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.

Hyperlinks to other sites may be embedded within blog posts or on the website pages. Please note that the privacy policy of that particular website applies when navigating to the respective URL. Commonly included links on laurensm.com include, but are not limited to, the Power Platform Community Forum and LinkedIn. The privacy policies of the forementioned are listed below.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Your data privacy and security is very important to us. We may share essential security information (such as your IP address) with our security providers with the aim of reducing the risk of brute force attacks, malicious activity and improving website security. More information can be found in the privacy policies of our security plugin providers listed below.

Plugin privacy information: Jetpack (Automattic) privacy policy // Jetpack Protect privacy // Wordfence privacy policy

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 have an account on this site, or have left comments, 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.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact information

Your privacy is very important to us. In case of questions about the collected data or the privacy policy, you can reach us at the email below.

Name: Laurens Martens
Email: info@laurensm.com