Privacy Policy

Comments

When a site visitor leaves a comment, we collect the data visible in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser signature to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your e-mail address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if it is being used. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: 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 are a registered user and uploading pictures to your site, you should avoid uploading pictures with EXIF location tags. Visitors to the website can download and extract full location data from pictures on the website.

Cookies

If you comment on something on the site, you will be able to choose to save the name, e-mail address and/or website in cookies, so that when you write further comments, the above information will be conveniently completed. Cookies will expire after a year.

If you visit the login page, we will create a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be deleted when the browser is closed.

When logging in, we additionally create a few cookies needed to save your login information and selected screen options. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select the “Remember me” option, the login will expire after two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data, it simply indicates the ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (eg, videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in a similar way as if the user has visited a specific website directly. Sites can collect information about you, use cookies, attach additional external tracking systems, and monitor your interactions with embedded material, including tracking your interactions with embedded material if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

Who do we share the data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the outgoing message.

How long we keep your data

If you leave a comment, its content and metadata will be retained indefinitely. Thanks to this, we are able to recognize and approve subsequent comments automatically, without sending them to moderation.

For users who have registered on our website (if any), we also store the personal information entered in the profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except their username, which cannot be changed). Site administrators can also view and modify this information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have a user account or have added comments on this site, you can request a file with an exported set of your personal data in our possession, including all those provided by you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where we will send your details

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.