Comments

Suggested text: If 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 aid spam detection.

An anonymized string generated from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you are using it. Here is the privacy policy for Gravatar service: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once approved by us, your profile picture is shown in the context of your comment, and it’s publicly visible.

Media

Suggested text: If you share images on the site, you should use caution when uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Users of the site are able to download and extract all location data from images posted at the site.

Cookies

Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. They are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will keep for 1 year.

If you have an account and you log in to our site, we will create a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. The 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 expire after two days, and screen options cookies after a year. If you have an account and are logged in, the session stays active for two weeks unless you select “Remember Me”. If you log out of your account, the associated login cookies will also be deleted.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie only contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Content embedded from other websites

Suggested text: Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). All the sites other than the site you are browsing will also work as another site you have visited.

If you log in to the new site, you may collect data from you, and cookie, additional performed embedding third-party tracking, and monitor your access to such embedded content, including trace your access to the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

Who we share your data with

Example answer: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be located in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Ejusdem Generis: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained until it is manually removed. That is so we can identify and automatically approve any followup comments, rather than holding them for our moderation queue.

For users that register on our site (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. An explanation must be provided before leaving the site All users can access, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (they don’t have the ability to change their username). Website administrators can view and edit that information as well.

What rights you have regarding your data

Text Suggestion: 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 may also ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you. This excludes any data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Recommended text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service