opinions

When visitors write comments on the site, we collect the information provided in the comment form as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent register to help detect spam

An anonymized string generated from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you use it. The Gravatar Services privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible in the text of your comment

Media

If you upload images to the website, you must not upload images with geo-location data (EXIF GPS). Website visitors can download and extract any location information from images on the website

Cookies

If you register your opinion on our site, you can decide to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you don’t have to fill in your details again when you post another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain your personal information and is deleted when your browser is closed

When you log in, we will also set cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. Login cookies are for the last two days and screen options cookies are for the last year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will last for two weeks. Login cookies will be deleted if you log out of your account

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain personal information and simply indicates that your article post ID has only been edited. Expires after one day

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited another website.

These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and Log in to that website

Who we share your information with

If you requested a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email

?How long do we keep your information

If you post a comment, the comment and its metadata will be retained indefinitely. This means we can automatically detect and approve subsequent comments instead of queuing them up

For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information we provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except those who cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information

?Where was your data sent

Visitor comments may be screened through an automated spam detection service