Who we are

This is the memorial website for Norma Mika Prince.  It is run by some members of the Mika family (the website administrators), who may be reached via the Contact Form.

Submissions and Contact Requests

When visitors submit any form on this site, we collect the data shown in the submission form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Contact Requests via the Contact Form are considered private and available only to the website administrators.

Submissions of text and/or media via the content submission page will be treated as public content (excluding the email address and submission metadata), and will be published after approval by the website administrators. We will not use your submissions outside of this website without your permission.  However, they will be available on the open internet and we cannot prevent other entities from saving this content and using it without your permission.

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.

We do not claim to hold copyright over any media or content provided by third parties, and it remains the property of the original owner.  By submitting any text or media to be posted on this site, you are asserting that you own the copyright to this material and give us permission to distribute it without restriction on the open internet until you revoke this permission by contacting us.  Users are prohibited from uploading any content to which they do not own copyright.  Users are further prohibited from uploading any content to which they do not have permission from all copyright owners to distribute the media freely.

Cookies

Browsing the site does not require any cookies to be set.

Some cookies may be set or utilized by the ReCaptcha service when you submit a form, but we have no control over or access to these.

Embedded content from other websites

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.  We have no control over this and recommend you use a tracker blocker such as uBlock Origin if you are concerned about leaking this data.

Who we share your data with

Any memories or photos you upload to the website will be publicly available on normamika.com alongside your name (unless you submit your public name as “Anonymous”).  Website administrators have access to any internal communications and your email address, should you include it with your submission form.  Submissions may be sent to an automated spam detection service, but this is the only third party to which we would send any private data.  We will not use any content without your permission, however we cannot prevent other entities from saving public content and using it without your permission.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment or upload a photo, this information and related metadata are retained indefinitely unless you request that we take it down by contacting us from the Contact form.  Should you make such a request, we will do our best to carry it out within 24 hours and encourage you to follow up via multiple means of communication to expedite the process.

What rights you have over your data

If you have submitted anything to us via this site or email, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us, by contacting us from the Contact form. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you as described in the previous section. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent and stored

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.  Once approved, your submitted name as well as any content you provided us (excluding your email) will be freely delivered without modification to any client on the open internet which requests it.  No other information will be transmitted to any third-party services.  We will take reasonable precautions to safeguard the security of private content and protect all content from unauthorized modification, but can make no guarantees that such scenarios will not happen.  Users are prohibited from uploading content which they do not wish to be publicly available.

All information will be stored in Switzerland by the fine folks at Infomaniak.  Users are prohibited from uploading any content which they do not wish to be stored in Switzerland.