You may be asked to provide personal information at times on this site for customer service purposes. In such cases, such personal information will be protected as described below, based on our Privacy Policy

 

. Information covered by this Privacy Policy includes: name, address, email address, telephone/fax numbers, gender, date of birth, occupation, hobbies, etc., provided to this website. This information is used to help identify individual users. This website clearly identifies the intended purpose of private information provided by users. The information will not be used for any other purpose. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

 

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile photo will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

 

Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving 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 also set up several cookies in order to save your login information and screen display choices. Login information cookies remain for two days, and display options cookies remain for a year. You will be signed in for two weeks when you choose Remember Me, and if you sign out of the account, your sign-in cookies will be deleted.

 

An additional cookie will be saved in your browser if you edit or publish an article. This file contains no personal data and only indicates the ID of the article you edited. It will expire in one day.

 

Embedded content from other websites

 

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

 

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

 

Who do we share your data with?

 

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

 

How long do we keep your data?

 

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue for approval.

 

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.

 

What rights do you have 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 ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.