Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 26/02/2026

Who we are

This website is operated by Paul Webb Nutrition.
Website: https://paulwebbnutrition.com.au

For Privacy related enquiries please contact: paul@microbes.life

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.

An anonymised string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy
After approval, your profile picture may be visible publicly alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors may download and extract location data from images on the site.

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.

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 into that website.

Security and site protection

We use Solid Security to monitor and protect the website from malicious activity. IP addresses may be logged conditionally for security purposes and retained for up to 60 days.

The site is also scanned for malware and vulnerabilities via SolidWP Site Scanner. No personal information is intentionally submitted to the scanner, although publicly available data (such as comments) may be included in scans.

SolidWP Privacy Policy: https://solidwp.com/privacy-policy

Image Optimisation

We use the Smush plugin by WPMU DEV to optimise images for web performance. Images may be transferred to WPMU DEV servers for processing. EXIF data may be stripped during optimisation and is not permanently stored by WPMU DEV.

WPMU DEV Privacy Policy: https://wpmudev.com/docs/privacy/our-plugins

Data Sharing

We do not sell or rent personal data. Data may be shared only with:

  • Spam detection services
  • Security monitoring services
  • Website infrastructure providers as required for site functionality

data retention

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to allow automatic approval of follow-up comments.

Security logs are retained for up to 60 days.

What rights you have over your data

If you have left a comment on this website, you may request:

  • A copy of the personal data we hold about you
  • Deletion of your personal data

This does not include data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.