This Privacy Policy has been prepared to better serve those who are concerned about how their “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is used online. Please read our Privacy Policy carefully to gain a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personally identifiable information in accordance with our website.

What personal information do we collect from people who visit our blog, website?

When ordering or registering on our website, you may be asked to enter your name, email address or other details to assist you with your experience.

When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you register on our website or enter information on our website.

Comment

Recommended text: When a visitor leaves a comment, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser’s user agent string to help check for spam.

An anonymized string (also known as a hash) generated from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to confirm your use of the service. The Privacy Policy for Gravatar Services is here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be displayed publicly next to your comment.

media

Recommended text: If you upload images to this site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded geolocation information (EXIF GPS). Visitors to this site will be able to download and extract location information from images on this site.

Cookies

Recommended text: If you leave a comment on our site, you may choose to save your name, e-mail address and website address in cookies. This is for your convenience by not having to fill in the relevant content again when you comment. These cookies are kept for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to confirm whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we also set a number of cookies to save your login information and screen display options. Login cookies are kept for two days, while screen display options cookies are kept for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login status will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the cookies used to log in will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, we store an additional cookie in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data but only the ID of the article you just edited. This cookie is kept for one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Recommended Text: Articles on this site may contain embedded content (eg, videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves the same as if you were visiting those other sites directly.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party trackers, and monitor your interactions with these embedded content, including tracking you and embedded content when you have an account with these sites and are logged in to those sites interaction.

Who we share your information with

Recommended text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the password reset email.

How long we keep your information

Recommended text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will be saved indefinitely. We do this so that any follow-up comments can be identified and automatically approved without having them queued for moderation.

For registered users of this website, we also store personal information provided by users in their profiles. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except for the inability to change their username), and site administrators can also view and edit that information.

What rights do you have over your information

Recommended text: If you have an account with this site, or have ever left a comment, you can request that we provide an export file of the personal data we hold about you, which also includes all data you have provided us. You can also ask us to erase all personal data about you. This does not include data that we must retain due to administrative, regulatory or security needs.

where your data will be sent

Recommended text: Guest comments may be checked by automated spam monitoring services.