Our Identity and Privacy Commitment
At our website, we prioritize your privacy and aim to be transparent about how we handle your data. This policy outlines our practices regarding information collection, usage, and protection.
Interaction and Data Collection
Comments
When you leave comments, we collect the information you provide in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string. This helps us detect and prevent spam. If you use Gravatar, an anonymized string (hash) from your email may be sent to their service. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible to the public alongside your comment.
Media
We advise against uploading images containing embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to our website, as visitors can download and extract this information.
Cookies
Commenting on our site allows you to opt-in to cookie storage of your name, email, and website for convenience. These cookies last for one year. We also use temporary cookies to check browser compatibility and set cookies for login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, while screen options cookies last for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends login persistence to two weeks. Article editing creates a short-term cookie with the post ID, expiring after one day.
External Content
Our articles may include embedded content from other websites, which behaves as if you visited those sites directly. These external sites may collect data, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions.
Data Sharing and Retention
We include your IP address in password reset emails for security purposes. Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic approval of follow-up comments. Registered users’ profile information is stored but can be edited or deleted by the user at any time, except for usernames.
Your Data Rights
Account holders and commenters can request an exported file of their personal data or ask for data erasure, except for information we must retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
Data Security
We may use automated spam detection services to check visitor comments, ensuring the integrity of our platform.