What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once you have approved your comment, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Media
If you are a registered user and upload images to the site, you should avoid uploading images with EXIF location tags. Visitors to the site can download and read the full location data from images on the site.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be given the option to save your name, email address and website address in cookies so that when you leave a subsequent comment, this information is conveniently filled in for you. These cookies expire after one year.
If you visit the 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 options choices. Login cookies expire after two days, and screen options cookies expire after one year. If you select “Remember me,” your login will expire after two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.
If you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the post you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other sites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the user had visited the other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions with that embedded content, including tracking your interactions with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your information with
How long we store your information
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve subsequent comments automatically, without sending them to moderation each time.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their profiles. Each user can view, correct, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username, which cannot be changed). Site administrators can also see and modify this information.
What rights do you have over your data?
If you have a user account or have left comments on this site, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including all of the data you have provided. You can also request that we delete all of the personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Where we send data
Guest comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.