Which personal data we collect and why we collect it.

Comments.

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data displayed in the comment form and also the visitor’s IP address and the browser’s user agent string to help detect spam. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approving your comment, your profile picture will be visible to the public along with your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the site, you should refrain from uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Website visitors can download and extract all location data from images on the website.

Contact forms.

Cookies

If you write a comment on our website, you can choose to store your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you don’t have to fill in your information again when you write another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you have an account and you log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is removed when you close the browser. When you log in, we will set up a number of cookies and store your login information and your screen display choices.
Login cookies last for two days, and screen selection cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will last for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will disappear.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and simply provides the post ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

Analytics

If you write a comment, the comment and its metadata will be retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of having them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if any), we also store the personal information they provide for their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception that they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.

What rights do you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have posted 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 ask us to delete any personal data we have about you. This does not include any type of data that we are required to store for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Where we send your data

Visitors’ comments may be checked by an automatic spam detection service.