Privacy Policy

Who are we

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Comments

Proposed text: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitors’ IP addresses and the user’s browser user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to find out whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media files

Proposed text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the site.

Cookies

Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site, you can enable the storage of your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to re-enter your details the next time you leave a comment. These cookies will be stored for 1 year.

If you have an account on the site and you log in, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser supports cookies, the cookie does not contain any personal information and is deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set several cookies to save your login information and screen settings.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply identifies the article you have just edited. It expires in 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves the same as if the user had visited the other site.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embedded third-party tracking applications, and track your interactions with this embedded content. In particular, track interactions with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to this site.

How long we keep your data

When you leave a comment, it and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically identify and approve each subsequent comment instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

Suggested text: 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 that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked by an automatic spam detection service.

What rights do you have regarding 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 that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked by an automatic spam detection service.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked using an automatic spam detection service.