This covers https://www.lewiscowles.co.uk website and software created linking to this policy
Lewis authors browser plugins for popular web-browsers.
None of these collect your personal information to send to Lewis or anyone he is aware of.
These plugins are usually to give you control over the web you interact with including saving logs of bookmarks in markdown, or changing webpages to remove trigger words or offensive terms.
Lewis does work on plugins that work with private businesses and those are not covered under this privacy policy.
Lewis does include a link to his website in some of his work.
Lewis Cowles does not collect PII. At the time of writing, Lewis is not a data controller and has no plans to become one.
While Lewis Cowles can and will support customers collecting, using and providing goods and services that use such information, he will ensure that the highest standards are maintained and that he ask the right questions to minimize unnecessary data capture.
If you visit his login page(s), he 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, he 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 use other connected systems with the user details including password, login session will be maintained using a cookie. If you are redirected to a third-party service, via iframe or otherwise, those resources are not covered under this privacy policy, but will be covered under that domain policy.
If your browser is transmitting PII automatically, this may show up in his server logs.
Your data is encrypted using TLS if you access this website via HTTPS (padlock in address bar), and he do not make use of the data outside of remitting errors, and basic checks.
Sections of his website, back-end and applications may monitor feature usage. This is attributed to a user account and will never be deleted.
Upon the closure of a customer account this data is held as a record of what was. he reserve the right to remove data from his systems, but such data is about business, and not you as a person or your private life.
Lewis Cowles does not share your private data with anyone. he does not sell it, and he does not give it away.
Lewis Cowles offers an SSL certificate when accessing his website.
If you approach him about a project; limited information that is not about you as a person, may be used to work with third-parties to ensure service delivery goals can be, and are met.
For users that register on his website (if any), he 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.
If you create or are provided with a user account on other systems, Lewis Cowles may use your minimal contact information of First Name, Last Name, Job Title, Company, Phone and Email. he ask that only professional details are shared, and do not consider this PII, as it is necessary and reasonable for the operation of his business.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data he hold about you. You do not though, because he is unlikely to allow you such an account.
You can also request that he erase any personal data he hold about you. This does not include any data he are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Your contact information Techlete stores contact information for active clients and potential clients
Lewis Cowles believes the best cure is prevention. For this reason Lewis Cowles does not collect or deal in private data.
Where he deals with your private data, he will work to ensure PII is encrypted at rest and in transport; that he work from machines with virus protection and updates, most of which is Open Source or provided by large industry vendors.
Most importantly you should be prior aware, or made aware of any risk(s) he know about.
In the event of a data breach, Lewis Cowles would email all affected parties notifying them what he know, and inviting them to engage in a dialogue.
Lewis Cowles is not a data controller so there really should be no likelihood of this, and he has no prior incidents.
Lewis generally tries to avoid receiving any data about anyone. Nothing covered by this policy will use private information or personally identifiable information from third parties, who are not you. This information will not be sent to Lewis, it would most likely be saved on your computer for your use of the software you use.
Lewis Cowles does not use any automated profiling or perform decision making with personally identifiable user data.
He is unaware of any present need for regulatory disclosure in relation to this website or associated software.