Our identity

The URL to our website is (website URL here)

Comments

The text suggested: To help with spam identification, we additionally record a visitor’s IP address and web browser user agent string when they leave comments on our site.

The Gravatar service may get an encrypted string (also known as a hash) made from your email address to determine whether you are utilising it. You can access the Gravatar service’s privacy statement at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment has been approved, the whole public can see your profile image next to it.

Media

You should refrain from submitting photographs with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) if you plan to upload them to the website. Visitors can download and extract any location data from the website’s photos.

Cookies

If you post a remark on our website, you can choose to allow cookies to store your name, email address, and website. These are provided for convenience so you won’t have to re-enter your information each time you post a remark. The shelf life of these cookies is one year.

If you go to our login page, we’ll temporarily store cookies to see if your browser permits them. This cookie is deleted when your browser is closed and contains no personal information.

We will also create a number of cookies when you log in to save your login details and screen display preferences. Screen option cookies last a year, whereas login cookies are only valid for two days. For two weeks, your login will be persistent if you choose “Remember Me.” The cookies for your login will be deleted after you log out of your account.

In your browser, a new cookie will be saved if you edit or publish an article. This cookie just contains the post ID of the article you just edited and contains no personal information. It runs out after a day.

Material from other websites that is embedded

This site’s articles may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). When another website’s content is embedded, it operates exactly as if the visitor had really visited the other website.

These websites may track your interaction with the embedded content, gather information about you, utilise cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your activity. This includes tracking your activity if you have an account and are logged in to the website.

With whom we share your data

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

How long we keep your information

The comment and any associated information are kept forever if you leave a comment. This allows us to detect and approve any subsequent comments manually without having to moderate them.

If any users register on our website, we additionally retain the personal data they supply in their user profiles. Anytime, users may access, amend, or delete their personal information (except they cannot change their username). Administrators of the website can also access and modify that data.

How you can exercise your data rights

You can ask to receive an exported file of the personal data we have about you, along with any data you have provided to us if you have an account on our site or have posted comments. You can also ask us to delete any personal information we may have about you. This does not apply to any information we must maintain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Your data is transmitted to

An automatic spam detection service may be used to review visitor comments.