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Privacy Policy & Cookies

This Website is owned, maintained and created by myself, Darragh Murphy for the purposes of displaying Personal Design / Development Proposals in the form of Drawings, CGI imagery and other Intellectual Property. I am the author / administrator of ArchiAssets.com and GrandProjets.com.

The Privacy Notice explains how I process information about the visitors to my websites – In this instance – the Websites “ArchiAssets.com” and “GrandProjets.com”) but also other dedicated project websites associated with Archiassets.com & created by Darragh Murphy, and linked to from within this Website in the site header via the “Dedicated websites” page link.

The website is created using the WordPress.com Platform and it’s functionality also includes options for the use Jetpack (including WooCommerce Shipping & Tax), IntenseDebate, Crowdsignal.com, and Akismet.

About this Website, it’s Platform creators & what this Privacy Notice Covers

The following describes the creators of the WordPress Website Building Platform – Automattic, what they do, and what this Privacy Notice covers.

Automattic are the people behind a variety of products and services designed to allow anyone–from bloggers, to small business owners, and enterprises–to create, publish, and manage their own websites:

WordPress.com offers the design, features, and support to bring a website to life.
With Jetpack, website owners that host their websites elsewhere can connect those websites to features and tools available through WordPress.com and WooCommerce Shipping & Tax.
Crowdsignal helps site owners create quizzes, surveys, and polls that fit their brand and vision.
Intense Debate gives site owners tools to manage comments on their websites.
Akismet helps keep spam under control by filtering out spam comments–hundreds of millions, every day!

In this Privacy Notice, Automattic refer to the users of the services they provide through these products and services–such as a website’s administrator, contributor, author, or editor–as “Users,” and they refer to the Users’ websites as “Sites.” Visitors to those Sites can read published content and interact with the Sites through features such as comments, “likes,” poll/survey responses, and follows.

Automattic put together this Privacy Notice to help their Users understand the information they collect about their Site visitors, and how that happens on their Sites. Their Users ( in this case“Darragh Murphy”), am responsible for publishing a privacy policy on their Sites that explains to their visitors how data is collected via the Sites and how that information is used and disclosed.

This Privacy Notice does not apply to those who visit Automattic’s own websites (like automattic.com, wordpress.com, jetpack.com, or akismet.com).

Information Automattic collect about Visitors to their Users’ Sites

Automattic collect information about visitors to their Users’ Sites in a few different ways–they collect certain information that the visitors provide to the Site, they collect some information automatically, and they collect any information that Users provide to them about their visitors.

Information a Visitor Provides to a Site

Starting with information that visitors provide directly to a Site, which primarily happens when visitors type into a text field on a Site, like a comment field , contact / feedback form or a sign-up form. Users may also implement other ways to allow Site visitors to provide information directly through their Sites.

Here are the most common ways in which a visitor directly provides information to a Site:

Follower and Subscriber Information: When a visitor signs up to follow or subscribe to a Site using Jetpack or WordPress.com, Automattic collect the sign-up information requested by the Site, which typically includes an email address.
Site Comments: When a visitor leaves a comment on a Site, Automattic collect that comment, and other information that the visitor provides along with the comment, such as the visitor’s name and email address.
Crowdsignal Survey Responses: When a visitor completes a poll, quiz, or other type of survey prepared by a User via Crowdsignal.com, Automattic collect the visitor’s responses to those surveys, and other information that the survey owner requires for a poll/quiz/survey response, like an e-mail address.
Order and Shipment Information: If a visitor orders something from a Site using the store and ecommerce features available through WordPress.com or Jetpack (including WooCommerce Shipping & Tax), Automattic may collect information to process that order, such as credit card and billing information, and an address for shipping the package along to the recipient and calculating applicable taxes. Automattic may also use this information for other purposes on behalf of Users–for example, to send marketing and other communications from Users to their customers, and to provide a User with analytics information about their ecommerce site (e.g., the number of orders from particular geographic areas).
Other Information Entered on the Site: Automattic may also collect other information that a visitor enters on the Site–such as a contact form submission, feedback form submission, a search query, or Site registration.

Information that is Automatically Collected from this Site

This Website and its other associated websites automatically collects some information about its visitors. The information automatically collected depends on which services the Site uses. listed examples below:

Technical Data from a Visitor’s Computer and Etcetera: This Site collects information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available about visitors to a Site, such as the IP address, browser type, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
Visitor Interactions: This Site will collect information about a visitor’s interactions with a Site, including the “likes” and “ratings” left by visitors, if this Site is using the Jetpack plug in.
Location Information: This Site may determine the approximate location of a visitor’s device from the IP address. This Site will collect and use this information to, for example, tally for the Site Administrator, how many people visit this WebSite from certain geographic regions. If you’d like, you can read more about the Site Stats feature for WordPress.com sites and Jetpack sites.
Akismet Commenter Information: This Site collects information about visitors who comment on Sites that use the Akismet anti-spam service. The information collected depends on how this Site Administrator sets up Akismet for this WebSite, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address…, and the comment itself, of course).
Crowdsignal Response Information: This Website collects information about visitors who respond to a Crowdsignal survey if there is such a survey enabled on this website.. The information that is collected typically includes IP address, browser type, operating system, user agent, and the web page last visited.
Intense Debate Commenter Information: This Website will collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use the WordPress / Automattic Intense Debate service. The information that is collected depends on how this websites Administrator sets up Intense Debate for the Site, but typically includes the IP address and account information on the Site, along with the comment.
Jetpack Site Activity: This website collects visitor activities related to the management of the Site, such as login attempts/actions and comment submission and management actions. For more information, please see the Jetpack Privacy Center.
Information from Cookies and Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a Site stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the Site each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on Sites. Automattic uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help identify and track visitors and Site usage, and to deliver targeted ads when ads are enabled for free WordPress.com sites or when ads are enabled on a Site through WordAds or Jetpack Ads (see the “Other Tools” section below for more details). For more information about the use of cookies and other technologies by Automattic / WordPress for tracking, including how visitors can control the use of cookies, please see their Cookie Policy.

Other Information Provided by this websites owner

Automattic may also from time to time collect any other information that is provided to them by this Websites owner / administrator about visitors to their Sites. For example, an owner / administrator may upload a directory or other information about this Site visitors and customers to the “backend” administrative platform for managing the Site.

How this Websites Visitor Information is used

This website uses information about Site visitors in order to provide Services to the owner / administrator and their Sites. The owner / administrator of this website may use Automattic Services to, for example, create and manage their Site, sell products and services on their Site, flag and fight comments from spammers, and collect information through polls, quizzes and other surveys.

Automattic may also use and share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify any individual. For instance, they may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our services.

How this Website shares Visitor Information

This Website may share information collected about Site visitors in the limited circumstances spelled out below:

Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: Automattic may disclose Site visitor information to subsidiaries, employees, and individuals who are their independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help Automattic provide their services to this Websites owner / administrator and their Sites, or to process the information on their behalf. Automattic require their subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Notice for information about visitors that they share with them.
Third Party Vendors: Automattic may share Site visitor information with third party vendors who need to know this information in order to provide their services to Automattic. This group includes vendors that help Automattic provide services to Users and their Sites. Automattic require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.
Legal Requests: This website may disclose Site visitor information in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request. For more information on responses to requests for information, please see Legal Guidelines.
To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: Automattic may disclose Site visitor information when they believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Automattic, their Users, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if Automattic have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of Automattic’s business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Automattic goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, Site visitor information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Notice would continue to apply to Site visitor information and the party receiving this information may continue to use this information, but only consistent with this Privacy Notice.
Information Shared Publicly: Information that visitors choose to make public on this Website if the facility to do so is provided thereon, is–you guessed it–disclosed publicly. That means, of course, that information like visitor comments and “likes” are all available to others, including information about the visitor that is displayed in connection with a comment or “like” (such as a visitor’s WordPress.com username and Gravatar). Automattic provide a “firehose” stream of public data (including comments) from Sites to provide that data to firehose subscribers, who may view and analyze the content, but do not have rights to re-publish it publicly. Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.

How Long do Automattic retain Visitor Information?

If Automattic are not legally required to keep it, they generally discard information about Site visitors when no longer needed for the purposes for which they collect and use it on behalf of the site owner / administrator — those purposes which are described in the “How this websites visitor information is used” section above.

For example, Automattic keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to one of our user’s Sites — such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system — for approximately 30 days. Automattic retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, investigate issues if something goes wrong on a user’s Site.

As another example, when a Site visitor views this website, Automattic use their IP address in order to update the Site Stats with information about their visit, like what country they are in. They keep that IP address for approximately 30 days to give them time to calculate this websites monthly Site Stats and address any issues with those counts.

Other Tools

This Website may contain ads from third party ad networks and advertisers, and the Website owner / administrator may integrate other tools and services on their Sites (such as Google Analytics and third party plugins). Please note that this Privacy Notice only covers the collection of information by Automattic, and does not cover the collection by any third party.

Ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about visitors’ use of this Site and across other websites and online services, such as a visitor’s IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by those companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to visitor interests. For more information about how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org, and for more information on interest-based ads, including information about how visitors may be able to opt out of having their web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit aboutads.info/choices (US based) and youronlinechoices.eu (EU based).