Privacy policy
Please read this Privacy Policy by giving consent to the document to obtain permission to use our services.
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam. An anonymized string generated from your email address (also called a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly available in the context of your comment.
If you are uploading images to a website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Website visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site, you can enable cookies to store your name, email address and website. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to enter your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies are stored for one year. If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser. When you log in, we also set up several cookies to store your login information and screen display options. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you choose “Remember me”, your login will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal information and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It will expire in 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and track your interactions with this embedded content, including tracking your interactions with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into this site.
If you leave a comment, it and its metadata will remain indefinitely. This is so that we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of keeping them in a moderation queue. For users who register on our website (if any), we also 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). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data that we hold about you, including any data you provide to us. You can also request that we delete any personal data that we hold about you. This does not include any data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Visitor comments can be checked using an automated spam detection service.