Comments
When visitors leave comments, we collect the information shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser User-Agent string to help detect spam comments. An anonymized string (also known as a hash) generated from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly displayed next to your comment.
Media
If you upload images to this website, you should avoid uploading images that have embedded geolocation information (EXIF GPS). Visitors to this website will be able to download and extract location information from the images on this website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt to save 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 commenting. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set several cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, while screen display preference cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login status will be retained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, we will store an additional cookie in your browser. This cookie does not contain personal data and only records the ID of the article you just edited. This cookie will last for one day.
Embedded content from other sites
Articles on this site may contain embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.). The behavior of embedded content from other sites is no different from visiting those other sites directly. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions with the embedded content, including tracking your interactions with the embedded content when you have an account on those sites and are logged in.
Who we share your information with?
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the password reset email.
How long do we keep your information?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will be retained indefinitely. We do this so we can recognize and automatically approve any subsequent comments without holding them in a moderation queue.
For registered users of this site, we also store the personal information provided by users in their profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their username), and site administrators can also view and edit that information.
What rights do you have regarding your information?
If you have an account on this site, or have previously left comments, you can request us to provide an export file of the personal data we have about you, which also includes all the data you have provided to us. You can also request us to erase all personal data about you. This does not include data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where will your data be sent?
Visitor comments may be checked by an automatic spam detection service.