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Privacy Policy

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  1. Information We Collect
    Comments: When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, including your name (if provided), email address (if provided), website (if provided), IP address, and browser user agent string. This helps us with spam detection.

    Gravatar: An anonymized string created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to see if you have a profile picture. You can find the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. If your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public next to your comment.

    Media: If you upload images to our website, we recommend you avoid uploading images containing embedded location data (EXIF GPS). This is because visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.
  2. Cookies
    Leaving Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

    Login: We use temporary cookies to determine if your browser accepts cookies and to manage your login session. These cookies do not contain personal data and are discarded when you close your browser.

    Logged-in Users: When you log in, we set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. Choosing “Remember Me” will persist your login for two weeks. Logging out will remove the login cookies.

    Editing/Publishing Posts: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved for 1 day. This cookie only contains the post ID of the article you edited.
  3. Embedded Content
    Articles on this site may include embedded content from other websites (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). This content behaves in the same way as if you visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
  4. How Long We Retain Your Data
    Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

    Registered Users: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
  5. Your Rights Over Your Data
    If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, with the exception of data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
  6. Who We Share Your Data With
    Password Reset: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
  7. Where Your Data is Sent
    Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.