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Powers Investigations, Inc. considers the privacy of its website visitors to be of extreme importance.  Any information you provide or access on our website will be considered private, and will never be given, sold, or leased to another company, agency, or individual, unless otherwise stated herein.

Information Collected

As a visitor to this website, the following information is automatically collected:

  • IP address from which you access our site
  • Type of hardware, browser, and operating system you are using to access our site
  • Method of access to our site (for example, the referring search provider or website, or direct access via the URL)
  • If you were referred to our site, the referring entity’s URL
  • If the search provider you used to access our site provides information regarding your search, we collect that information
  • Which pages you visit on our site

As a commenter to this website, we collect the following information:

  • IP address from which you access our site
  • Type of hardware, browser, and operating system you are using to access our site
  • Method of access to our site (for example, the referring search provider or website, or direct access via the URL)
  • If you were referred to our site, the referring entity’s URL
  • If the search provider you used to access our site provides information regarding your search, we collect that information
  • Which pages you visit on our site
  • Any information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself

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.

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.

Contact forms

We collect the information submitted to us via any contact form.  We keep contact form submissions indefinitely, but we do not use the information submitted through them for any purpose other than contacting those who have filled them out and requested we contact them.  This information is never sent, sold, shared with, or otherwise given to third parties.

Cookies

Cookies are short and simple text files stored on your computer by internet web sites to help identify users and enhance customer service.  We use cookies to customize and personalize your visit to our website.  However, you may refuse cookies and/or delete cookies on your device through numerous methods.  If you refuse/disable cookies, some functions of our site may not work correctly.

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. However, logging out of your account will remove the cookie.

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.

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.

How long we retain your data

As a visitor, a log of your visit to our site is collected for analytical purposes only.  This is so we can track how people use our site and improve our site by using that data.  This information may be retained indefinitely.

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. However, this does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Security

Although every effort is made to secure network communications, we cannot ensure the privacy of online communications.  Individuals using online services should take steps to protect personal information.

The steps we take to ensure that any data collected is secure, includes limiting the number of people who have access to our database servers and electronic security systems with password protections to guard against unauthorized access.

Where we send your data

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

Contact Information 

You may contact our office at 614-793-1288, or by mail at 6818 Caine Rd., Columbus, OH 43235. 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, and at our sole discretion.  Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute acceptance of that change.

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