Privacy Policy

We collect basic information about how people use our website.

This helps us understand what’s working and what still needs improvement. These insights guide us as we create our content, improve usability, and create a smoother, more meaningful experience for everyone who visits.

Who we are

Our website (Site) address is: https://chasedigitalsolutions.com.

1. Email addresses

Newsletters and email marketing

We ask for an email address so we can share helpful updates, tips, and news. We send a one-time email to visitors who provide their email address using a double opt-in method to validate subscriptions. Subscribers may unsubscribe at any time.

Free guides

When a visitor downloads one of our free guides, we ask for an email address so we can share helpful updates, tips, and news. We send a one-time email to visitors who provide their email address using a double opt-in method to validate subscriptions. Subscribers may unsubscribe at any time.

2. Website 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.

Gravatar

If you leave a comment on the Site, 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.

Comment 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.

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

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 this site (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.

3. Visitor Analytics

Clicky Analytics

We use Clicky to gain a deeper understanding of how visitors use our website. Clicky may set small cookies to track basic usage patterns such as pages viewed, time on site, and repeat visits. All data is anonymized, and Clicky does not store personally identifiable information. We use these insights to improve our website’s performance, content, and overall user experience.

Jetpack Site Stats

We use Jetpack’s Site Stats feature to understand how visitors interact with our content. Jetpack places simple analytics cookies that help identify returning visits and track basic usage patterns; these cookies do not store personal information. Jetpack provides our website administrators with aggregated reports only, which we use to improve the performance, structure, and overall experience of the site.

Statcounter

Statcounter is an online service which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in, etc.

We use Statcounter because better understanding how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design and functionality of our site. This allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.

Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors and visitor activity on the Site. This collected data includes:

• Time and date of visit (this can help us to identify and plan for busy periods on the Site)
• IP address (this is a numerical label assigned to a device by an Internet Service Provider to enable the device to access the internet)
• Browser and Operating System (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access the Site)
• Device Information e.g. device type and screen size (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access the Site)
• Referring Data e.g. a search engine link (this can help us to understand which search engines are helping visitors to find the Site)

Furthermore, when you visit our website a Statcounter cookie (called “is_unique”) may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the Site.

You can learn more about cookies from Statcounter and set your browser to refuse same here:
http://statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/

For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy the:
https://statcounter.com/about/legal/#privacy