When visitors leave comments on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location data from these images.
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in to your account on the site, we also set up several cookies to save your account data and your screen display choices. Login cookies are kept for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images, articles, etc. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor were visiting the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, incorporate additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to their website.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the password reset email.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. We do this so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in moderation.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we remove any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that you are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be marked by an automatic spam detection service.
