When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent, are collected to help detect unwanted comments.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is validated, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.
If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing GPS EXIF data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to enter this information again if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, and the lifespan of a screen options cookie is one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be removed.
When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles…). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting the other site.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and monitor your interactions with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to their site.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if any), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Site administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of personal data concerning you. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.