Comments
When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string generated from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly displayed next to your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from images on the 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 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 several cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for one 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 contains no personal data and only indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded content from other websites
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 when you visit those other sites directly.
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking programs, and monitor your interactions with this embedded content, including tracking your interactions with the embedded content when you are logged into your accounts on these sites.
Who do 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 retain your information?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will be stored indefinitely. We do this so that we can recognize and automatically approve any subsequent comments without adding these follow-up comments to the moderation queue.
For registered users of this website, we will 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 for changing the 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 ever left a comment, you can request an export file of the personal data we hold about you, which also includes all the data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase all personal data about you. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where will your data be sent?
Visitor comments may be checked by an automated spam comment detection service.