Who We Are
Killer Content is an indie design blog published by Royal LaKill Inc. focused on production and design. Occasionally, we host interviewees and guest writers whose views and opinions may not be affiliated with the parent company in any way.
What Personal Data We Collect And Why We Collect It
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam.
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. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you voluntarily upload images to the site, they will be visible to other site visitors. This is why we recommend scrubbing images for location data or other meta information. But, we do not collect anything else related to these images unless supplied by the user.
Contact Forms
If you contact us with questions, comments, concerns, or article submissions, we will collect the contact and identity information provided so we can respond effectively.
However, we do not send promotional or marketing emails to users who have not subscribed to our newsletter because unsolicited marketing messages are annoying.
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.
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.
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 Sites
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.
Who We Share Your Data With
Google Analytics and Monster Insights
Currently, we use a Monster Insights plugin integration to track and monitor site traffic. This helps us recognize which content people are most interested in and if there are any usability issues regarding site navigation.
The only information we receive is details about which articles were viewed, how many users visited those pages, and the broad geographic location of the user (UK/England, AU/Australia, etc.).
Google AdSense and Spam Detection
Some areas of our website include embedded display ads and banners created and monitored by Google Ad Sense. While we do not personally collect, monitor or have access to information about which ads you interact with.
Google may use cookies or other tracking dated collected about you from other websites to ‘personalize’ the results you see.
The revenue received from hosting these ads helps us support the site. But, we encourage using ad blockers for people who do not wish to see or interact with ads on the site.
We may also run comments through an automated spam filter in an effort to protect site visitors from malicious links and scams.
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.
What Rights You Have Over Your Privacy 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.
How We Protect Your Data
Because we are a small publishing team with limited resources, we are not interested in keeping or managing complicated user databases that could risk being breached.
All comments and communication are hosted through third-party services like Gravatar, Google Applications, and Meta services like Instagram, which all have their own robust data protection measures.
The website itself has several security measures in place to protect against common WordPress security issues. And our comment section is heavily moderated to discourage phishing links, spam and other malicious behaviour.