1. COMMENTS

When visitors engage with our site by leaving comments, we collect the information provided in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to prevent spam. Additionally, an anonymized string generated from your email address (referred to as a hash) may be shared with our service providers to determine if you are using it. Your profile picture, if approved, will be visible to the public alongside your comment.

2. MEDIA

If you choose to upload images to our website, we advise against including embedded location data (EXIF GPS) in these images. Visitors to our site have the capability to download and extract any location data from images hosted on our platform.

3. CONTACT FORMS

Should you decide to leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to have your name, email address, and website saved in cookies for your convenience. These cookies are designed to streamline the commenting process by retaining your information for future use, lasting for a duration of one year. Additionally, logging into our site results in the setup of temporary cookies to ascertain your browser’s acceptance of cookies; these cookies contain no personal data and are discarded upon browser closure.

Upon logging in, several cookies are established to preserve your login details and screen display preferences. Login cookies are active for two days, while screen options cookies persist for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends your login duration to two weeks. Editing or publishing an article results in the saving of an additional cookie in your browser, containing no personal data except the post ID of the edited article, expiring after 1 day.

4. EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles on our platform may feature embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.) from external websites. This embedded content behaves similarly to content accessed directly on those external sites. These websites may collect data, utilize cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your activity if you possess an account and are logged in to those websites.

5. RETENTION PERIOD FOR YOUR DATA

Comments and their associated metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic recognition and approval of follow-up comments. User profiles created on our website store the personal information provided in their user profile; users retain the ability to view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username). Website administrators possess the capability to view and modify this information as well.

6. WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

Users with accounts on our site or those who have left comments can request to receive an exported file containing the personal data held about them, including any data they have provided. Additionally, users can request the deletion of any personal data held by us. However, this request does not extend to data that we are obligated to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

7. DATA HANDLING

Visitor comments may undergo automated spam detection checks.

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