We’re privacy freaks. Here at Cryout Creations we do not track you as an individual and we do our best to collect and request as little information from you as we technically and legally need to.
Website
For both your and our convenience we use third party services that process visitor data in specific circumstances:
- Akismet for screening comments and forum posts for spam
- hCaptcha for protecting the contact forms from spam
- Tawk.to for providing live chat on our site – this is active only on select site sections
You can opt to block this functionality on our website (and any other website) at any time by blocking third party scripts. You can do so with plenty of browser extensions: Firefox, Opera, Chrome, (new) Edge, Safari.
We rely on external services for the processing of payments, handling of emails or live chat:
- When making a purchase the personal information you provide will be processed and stored by our payment processing partners, 2Checkout or PayPal (depending on your choice) according to their privacy policies. Payment details (card information) never passes nor reaches our own systems.
- If you subscribe to our newsletter your name and e-mail address will be stored by our emailing services provider, Mailerlite.
- If you use our live chat system, any information you enter in the live chat window is accessible and can be processed by our live chat provider, Tawk.to.
Our website uses SSL encryption to ensure privacy and security between your browser and our server at any time. We never receive nor store any of the payment information (such as card details) and we use password hashing and salting for your account security. We also use server and account locking policies to protect against brute force attacks or password guessing.
We store the information you enter upon registration, in the forum, through our support system or when making an order only in connection to providing you the purchased products, services, support or requested information. You can request we completely delete this information from our system at any time after you are no longer using our services, in accordance with the EU GDRP.
Keep in mind that if you have made a purchase with us we are legally obligated to keep records of the transaction(s) for a specific amount of time.
Themes and Plugins
None of our free and premium themes and plugins collect any visitor (and/or administration) user information in any form or manner. None of the functionality they provide requires individualized interaction with visitors and we don’t believe collecting such personal information would help us make our creations better in any way.
None of our free themes and plugins include any phone-home functionality. They are published in the WordPress.org repository and none of your interaction with the repository (searches, downloads, updates) ever reaches us in any form.
Our premium themes do include auto-update functionality, which gives us the site URL, configured license key, WordPress version and server IP the connection is made from when your WordPress site checks for updates. No other information and at no other point is it transmitted beside the update availability checks. We only use this information to process licensing status and supply your site with the available downloadable files.
Cookies
This website does make use of cookies. They are used to ensure proper running of parts of the website functionality (for example: comments submission, account management). You can always completely disable cookies in your browser. Your browser also provides the option to delete all previously stored cookies.
| PHPSESSID | This is a general purpose cookie used to maintain user session variables. It is normally a random generated number used by the site to identify a visitor for the duration of the visit. This cookie is automatically deleted when the browser is closed. |
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These cookies are used by WordPress to maintain authentication status. They are only set if you have an account on our site and you sign in. These get deleted when the browser is closed, unless you’ve checked the “remember login” option in which case they expire after 14 days. |
| cryout-cookies-notice | This is, ironically, a cookie used to remember that you have seen and accepted the notification message about our use of cookies. It expires 45 days from closing the notification. |
| tawkuuid | This cookie is used for the functionality of the live chat on specific site sections. It helps maintain the live chat status between pages. It expires in 6 months from the last time it was set. |
None of the information gathered via cookies identifies you as a person but for functionality purposes it can identify your browser.
Last updated 2024-11-11