If a visitor leaves a comment on the site, we collect the data in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent data for spam detection purposes.
An anonymized string created from your email address (“hash”) may be provided to Gravatar to determine whether you use it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ . Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible publicly in the context of your comment.
If you are a registered user and upload photos to the site, you may want to avoid uploading images with EXIF metadata, as they may contain your GPS location. Visitors can retrieve this information by downloading the images from the site.
If you leave a comment on our website, you can enable cookies to store your name, email address and website. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you comment again. These cookies are stored for one year.
If you have an account on the site and log in we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser supports cookies, the cookie does not contain any personal information and is deleted when you close your browser.
When you log into your account, we also set a few cookies with your login details and screen settings. Login cookies are stored for two days and screen settings cookies are stored for a year. If you select the “Remember me” option, the login data will be stored for two weeks. When you log out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted.
When you edit or publish an article an additional cookie will be stored in your browser, it does not contain personal data and only contains the ID of the entry you edited, it expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.), such content behaves the same as if the visitor were visiting another site.
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, implement additional third-party tracking, and track your interactions with the embedded content, including tracking interactions if you have an account and have logged in to that site.
If you leave a comment, the comment itself and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This is to detect and approve subsequent comments automatically, rather than placing them in an approval queue.
For users with a registration on our site, we store the personal information they provide in their profile. All users can see, edit or delete their profile information at any time (except for their username). The website administration can also see and modify this information.
If you have an account on the site or if you have left comments, you may request an export file of the personal data we have stored about you, including the data you have provided. You may also request the deletion of this data, this does not include data that we are required to store for administrative, legal or security purposes.
User comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.
