What Personal Data Do We Collect and Why?
Comments
When visitors submit comments on the site, we gather the information displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to aid in spam identification.
An anonymized string derived from your email address (also known as a hash) may be transmitted to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, the public will see your profile image in the context of your comment.
Media
If you post photographs to the website, please avoid include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract any location data from the website’s photos.
Cookies
If you post a comment on our site, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you won’t have to enter your information again when you write another remark. These cookies will keep for a year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, we will use a temporary cookie to see if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie stores no personal information and is deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will additionally set up a few cookies to remember your login details and screen display preferences. Login cookies last two days, whereas screen options cookies last a year. If you click the “Remember Me” button, your login will be saved for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.
If you update or publish an article, your browser will store an extra cookie. This cookie contains no personal information and only indicates the post ID of the article you just updated. It expires after one day.
Embedded content from different websites
This site’s articles may contain embedded content (such as videos, photos, and articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves just as if the visitor had visited the other site.
These websites may gather information about you, utilize cookies, embed additional third-party monitoring, and monitor your interaction with the embedded material, including tracking your activity if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who We Share Your Data With?
We will never share your data for monetary gain, email alerts, or other unsolicited communication. We will only use it internally to improve the information and services on this site.
How Long Do We Keep Your Data?
If you post a comment, it and its contents will be preserved indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and accept follow-up comments, rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
We keep the personal information submitted by users who register on our website (if any) in their user profiles. All users have the opportunity to see, change, and delete their personal information at any time (except when changing their username). Administrators of the website can also access and alter this information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data?
If you have an account on this site or have posted comments, you can request an exported file containing the personal data we have about you, including any information you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete any personal information we have on you. This excludes any data we are required to store for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Where We Send Your Data?
An automatic spam detection service may be used to filter visitor comments.