By visiting our website, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Statement. Please note that this Privacy Policy does not describe the information collection practices on other sites, including sites linked to or from this Site.
Collect information you provide to us
We receive and store any information that you voluntarily provide to us on our website. We use the information you provide for purposes such as responding to your requests, providing our services and communicating with you, unless you give us permission to use it otherwise, such as adding you to our mailing list.
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use “cookies” and other technologies to track the web searches you make while visiting this site and your surfing behavior on this site and other sites you may visit to enhance your online experience . This helps to understand how you use this site to improve our services or to deliver appropriate advertising. We may obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also 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 service 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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are 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 visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last 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, the 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that 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.
What rights you have over your data
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 erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Use of Personal Information by Third Parties
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.
In addition, this website may use third-party service providers to provide services for various aspects of this website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is governed by its own privacy policy.
sharing personal information
When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter into a contract describing that purpose and require the recipient to keep that personal information confidential and not to use it for any purpose other than to perform the contract.