Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Comments

When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, your IP address, and browser user agent to help detect spam. An anonymized string (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. If your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in relation to your comment. For more details, see the Gravatar privacy policy.

Media

If you upload images to our website, avoid including images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors to the website can download and extract location data from these images.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you can opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This 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 last for a week, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks.

If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser.

This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited, It expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Some articles on our site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, and articles. This embedded content behaves exactly as if you visited the other website directly.

These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, especially if your account is logged in to those websites.

Who We Share Your Data With

Some articles on our site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, and articles. This embedded content behaves exactly as if you visited the other website directly.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request 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 anydata we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.