Last updated: 6 August 2024
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This document sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read it carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By accessing pages or resources on our website, you are agreeing to the terms of this policy.
Who we are
This website’s address is https://phrasally.com. It is owned and operated by Timothy Brogden, trading as Phrasally.com. Tim is a software developer from York, England.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. reCAPTCHA sets a cookie named _grecaptcha.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you have 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. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy policies of these embedded content providers.
Contact form
If you contact us using a contact form on our site, we will store your message and the contact information you provide so that we can respond to you and deal with your enquiry. We may provide an option to allow you to authorise us to publish certain information you provide (for example, feedback comments), either anonymously or together with your name; in this case, your explicit consent will be sought first (for example, via an opt-in checkbox on the contact form).
User account management forms
If you choose to register on our website, we will collect a minimal amount of personal information, including your name, email address and a password, for the purpose of managing your user account.
Analytics
When you browse our site, your IP address and browser details may be logged and analysed for the purpose of spam detection.
We may store the answers you provide to quiz questions and analyse them to provide you with results and statistics, to adjust difficulty ratings, and to check the quality of quizzes and questions.
Who we share your data with
We do not share personal data with any third parties unless you have explicitly authorised us to do so, or we are compelled to do so by law. An example of when we might share your data with your prior permission is when you leave feedback on the site and give us permission to publish it.
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you contact us, we will store your correspondence with us while the matter at hand is still current, then subsequently archive or delete it.
If you register with our website, we will store the personal information you provide during registration (except for the password you provide, which we do not store) until you ask us to delete it. All users can view and edit their own personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit the information that is stored.
How we protect your data
Some of the ways in which we protect your data are:
- Hosting our website on a secure server with SSL security to encrypt requests to it.
- Controlling access to our website administration tools.
- Encrypting or hashing sensitive data in our database so that it is not stored in human-readable form, or is not stored at all.
- Archiving or deleting data when it is no longer required (for example, emails).
Where you have chosen (or we have given you) a password which enables you to access certain features of our website, you are responsible for keeping that password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we use security procedures and features designed to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk.
What rights you have over your data
If you have registered on our website, or have contacted us through the website, 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 delete your user account and any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
How to contact us
You are welcome to contact us by filling out the form on the contact page of our website.