When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data showninthe comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent stringtohelp spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may beprovided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacypolicy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploadingimages with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website candownload and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you donot
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 closeyour browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login informationandyour screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookieslast for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If youlog 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. Thiscookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article youjust
edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos,
images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact
same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-partytracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including trackingyour interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are loggedintothat website.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be includedinthereset email.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retainedindefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up commentsautomatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal informationtheyprovide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal informationat
any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can alsosee and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, youcanrequest to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, includinganydata you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal datawehold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spamdetection service.