Privacy Policy

Who we are

Everythinghse is a platform designed to provide useful educating information on HSE. We also offer consultancy services and provide HSE related automated templates to safe you productive time and ease your work. We operates the website https://everythinghse.com and provides tools for hazard reporting, safety awareness, and community safety engagement.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your information when you use our website and services.

Information We Collect

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.

We may collect the following information:

Information You Provide

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number (optional)
• Hazard report details
• Uploaded photos, videos, and files
• Location information (if provided)

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.

Automatically Collected Information

• IP address
• Browser type
• Device information
• Usage data

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.

Use of Google APIs

EverythingHSE uses Google services to enhance user experience.
This includes:

• Google Drive or Google Cloud Storage for media uploads
• Google Maps for location accuracy
• Google Sheets for analytics
• Google OAuth for secure authentication (if enabled)

Google User Data

If you grant access to your Google account, we only use the data necessary to provide the requested functionality.
We do not:

• Sell Google user data
• Share Google user data with third parties
• Use Google data for advertising

You may revoke access at any time via your Google Account settings.

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.

The site may use basic cookies for analytics, performance monitoring, and page optimization.

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.

The platform may use third party tools such as analytics or security plugins. These services follow their own privacy rules

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

• Process hazard reports
• Improve community safety
• Publish approved reports
• Communicate with you
• Improve our services
• Provide analytics and insights

Sharing of Information

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How We Use Information

Information is used to:

• Publish eyewitness reports
• Verify submissions
• Improve platform performance
• Communicate with contributors when needed

We store submissions securely and restrict access to authorized personnel only.

We do not sell or rent user data.

We may share data only with:

• Service providers (e.g., hosting, analytics)
• Law enforcement (if legally required)

How We Store and Protect 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.

We use industry‑standard security measures to protect your data, including:

• SSL encryption
• Secure servers
• Access controls
• Regular security reviews

Your rights over your 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.

You may:

• Request access to your data
• Request deletion of your data
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Withdraw consent

Contact us at: ehs360hub@gmail.com

Third‑Party Services

Our website may contain links to third‑party services.
We are not responsible for their privacy practices.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically.
Updates will be posted on this page. Continued use of the site indicates acceptance.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at: ehs360hub@gmail.com