What personal information we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the response form, the IP address of the visitor and the browser user agent to help detect spam.
An anonymized string, created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service if you use it. The privacy policy page can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Media
If you are a registered user and upload images to the site, you should avoid uploading images containing EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to the website can download the images from the website and view the location data.
Contact forms
Cookies
When you leave a comment on our site, you can indicate whether your name, email address and website can be stored in a cookie. We do this for your convenience so you don’t have to refill this information for a new comment. These cookies are valid for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will store a temporary cookie to check that your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal information and will be deleted as soon as you close your browser.
Once you log in, we will keep some cookies in connection with your login information and screen view options. Login cookies are valid for 2 days and cookies for screen view options 1 year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will be kept for 2 weeks. As soon as you log out of your account, login cookies will be deleted.
When you change or publish a message, your browser will store an additional cookie. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only has the post ID of the article you have edited in it. This cookie expired after a day.
Embedded content from other websites
Posts on this site may contain embedded (embedded) content (e.g. videos, images, messages, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly the same as if the visitor has visited this other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.
Analytics
How long we keep your data
When you leave a comment, that comment and the metadata of that comment is kept forever. In this way, we can automatically recognize and approve follow-up responses instead of moderating them.
For users who register on our site (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except that they can’t change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or you have left comments, you can request an export file of your personal information that we have of you, including any information you have provided to us. You may also request that we delete all personal information we have of you. This does not contain any data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitors’ responses may be monitored through an automated spam detection service.