Privacy Policy
1. Who We Are
Whorl Creative Studio is a web design, SEO, and digital marketing agency. Our website address is: https://whorlcreative.studio.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website. Please read this policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Information You Provide
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you interact with our website, including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number, and any other information you choose to submit through contact forms, comment forms, or other interactive features.
2.2 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 with 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.
2.3 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.
2.4 Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, certain information is collected automatically, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, access times, and pages viewed. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, and gather demographic information.
3. Cookies
Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience. Below is a summary of the cookies we use:
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.
Login Cookies: 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.
Content Editing Cookies: 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 one day.
Analytics and Tracking Cookies: We use first-party and third-party cookies in connection with Microsoft Clarity and other analytics services (described in Section 5 below) to understand how visitors use our website.
4. 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.
5. Microsoft Clarity and Analytics
We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products and services. Website usage data is captured using first-party and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products and services and online activity.
Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud and security purposes, and advertising.
For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
6. Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
We may also share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. These third parties include, but are not limited to, Microsoft Clarity and any analytics or advertising platforms we use.
7. 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.
Analytics data collected through Microsoft Clarity and similar tools is retained in accordance with those services’ respective data retention policies.
8. 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.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may also have the right to access, correct, or restrict the processing of your personal data, object to certain data processing activities, and withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
9. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Data collected by Microsoft Clarity is transmitted to and processed by Microsoft in accordance with their privacy practices. Embedded content and third-party services may transmit data to their respective servers, which may be located outside your country of residence.
10. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal data to and from our website is at your own risk.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. 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.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal data, or would like to exercise your data rights, please contact us at:
Whorl Creative Studio
Website: https://whorlcreative.studio
Email: support@whorlcreative.studio