doitbeforeme.com is a simple publishing hosting platform that attaches utmost importance and is extremely sensitive to how visitor information is collected, what it is used for, and with whom it is shared and for what purposes.
This Privacy Policy explains how doitbeforeme.com (hereinafter referred to as “DOITBEFOREME“) collects and processes personal information through the doitbeforeme.com website.
This notice explains our handling of personal information. Visiting or using the website does not, by itself, constitute consent to optional cookies, advertising profiling, or other processing that requires consent under applicable law.
How does DOITBEFOREME use the personal information it collects?
DOITBEFOREME publishes free creative resources and allows moderated artwork submissions. Personal information may be processed to operate and secure the website, handle messages and submissions, improve usability, and support advertising. The specific legal basis depends on the purpose and applicable law.
We use it to improve the services provided, to determine what errors, if any, visitors encounter during their time on the site, to identify and eliminate the said errors, to increase the functionality of the services provided, and to analyze site performance.
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, 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.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Advertising and third-party technologies
DOITBEFOREME displays advertising. Advertising providers may process information such as IP address, browser or device details, and cookie or similar identifiers to deliver, protect and measure ads. Where storing or accessing non-essential identifiers requires consent, visiting the website alone is not consent. Please contact privacy@doitbeforeme.com for questions about advertising-related processing or to exercise applicable privacy rights.
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
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.
Community submissions, creative projects and shared artwork
When you voluntarily share an idea, work-in-progress sketch, finished drawing, coloring page or related creative project, we process the information you provide so that moderators can review the contribution and, if accepted, display it in our community. Depending on the form settings, this may include a public display name, title, description, image or link, optional contact details, and technical information such as your IP address for spam prevention and security. Our submission plugin may store technical details associated with the submission. Unpublished contributions are available to site administrators and moderators; approved contributions and the names or pseudonyms credited to them may be visible publicly.
Please do not submit sensitive information, children’s identifying details, private photographs, physical addresses, school names, exact locations, or images containing location metadata. Adults should make submissions; if sharing a child’s drawing, a parent or guardian should submit it without identifying the child. Publication is subject to moderation. Artwork remains the creator’s property and can be removed from the public site upon an appropriate request, subject to reasonable technical and legal retention needs.
For attribution corrections, removal requests or privacy questions relating to a submission, use our Contact Us page or the privacy contact address provided below. Information about allowed submissions and rights is available in the community guidelines.
What rights do you have over your data as a data subject?
If you have an account on DOITBEFOREME, 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.
EU and/or UK residents of DOITBEFOREME are entitled to the following rights under applicable data protection laws:
- The right to request access to and/or obtain a copy of your personal information.
- The right to request rectification or erasure of your personal information.
- The right to restrict the processing of your personal information.
- If applicable, the right to data portability to another platform.
- The right to object to the processing of your personal information.
If you have consented to the processing of your personal information, you also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. To make such a request, please contact privacy@doitbeforeme.com. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
How we protect your data
We use HTTPS to protect information while it is transmitted between your browser and the website, and we take technical and organisational steps intended to reduce the risk of unauthorised access. No website or transmission method can guarantee absolute security. This statement does not claim certification under ISO 27001 or compliance with the NIS2 Directive.