What personal data we collect and for what purpose
Comments
If a visitor leaves a comment on the site, we collect the data specified in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent data to determine spam.
An animated line created from your email address (“hash”) can be provided to Gravatar to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ . Once your comment is approved, your profile image will be visible publicly in the context of your comment.
Mediafiles
If you are a registered user and upload photos to the site, you should probably avoid uploading images with EXIF metadata, as they may contain your location data via GPS. Visitors can extract this information by downloading images from the site.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our website, you can include saving your name, email address and website in a cookie. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in the data again when you comment again. These cookies are stored for one year.
If you have an account with the site and you log in, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser supports cookies, it does not contain any personal information and will be deleted when your browser is closed.
When you sign in to your account, we also set a few cookies with your login details and screen settings. Login cookies are stored for two days and screen cookies for a year. If you choose the “Remember Me” option, your login details will be stored for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser, it does not contain any personal data and contains only the record ID of the article you have edited, expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.), such content behaves as if the visitor had entered another site..
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, implement additional third party tracking, and monitor your interactions with embedded content, including tracking interactions if you have an account and have logged on to that site.
With whom we share your data
How long have we been keeping your data
If you leave a comment, the comment itself and its metadata are saved indefinitely. This is done in order to identify and approve subsequent comments automatically, instead of placing them in the approval queue.
For users who register on our site, we store the personal information they provide in their profile. All members can see, edit or delete their profile information at any time (other than their member name). The administration of the website may also see and change this information.
What are your rights to your data
If you have an account on the site or if you have left comments, you can request an export file of the personal data we have saved about you, including the data you have provided. You may also request the deletion of this data, which does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Where we send your data
User comments can be checked by the automatic spam detection service.