What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
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 service privacy policy is available here: 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 upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are 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 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. 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 includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
How long we retain 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 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 that information.
What rights 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 request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Device Information
We store information about the interactions you have with the Services such as the device type, IP address, browser type. We use this information to improve the Services.
Location Information. We store information about where you are accessing the Services from. We use this information to improve the Services by providing information relevant to your location.
Law Enforcement
We may share your information with Third Parties when it becomes necessary to comply with reasonable requests of law enforcement or national security requests for specific information.
Those working for The Site
We use Third Parties to help us secure, analyze and improve the Services. These Third Parties may access and store your information to perform tasks and will do so with the same level of protection of your information.
Aggregated or Anonymized Information
We analyze data across the system to help improve the Services. We may from time to time disclose those analysis of data from usage of the Services for the benefit of the broader community. We will not disclose the data itself, only the analysis or findings from the research.
Protecting your information.
We take the following steps to protect your information.
1. Data Security. We ensure that data is stored on secure servers. Any payment information will be transferred via an encrypted connection.
2. Retention. We retain your information for as long as needed to provide the Services. You can ask for your information to be deleted by contacting [email protected]
3. Location. Information that you submit to our services will be stored in the United States or Australia but may be transferred to Third Parties in other locations.
4. Modification Information. Information that you have stored on the Services can be modified at any time or deleted via the Services or by contacting
We have no relationship with the End Users of Your Site.
1. Abusing And Disrupting The Services
1.1. Do not breach or bypass any security or authentication measures.
1.2. Do not test for vulnerabilities.
1.3. Do not access or tamper with or use and nonpublic areas of the Services.
1.4. Do not interfere with any user or host or network.
1.5. Do not take apart, decompile or reverse engineer any part of the Services in an effort to gain access to things such as source code.
1.6. Do not take action that imposes unreasonable load on our system or a third party service. We reserve the right to determine what is reasonable.
1.7. Do not provide your password to any other person or use the service via a shared password.
2. Spamming
2.1. Do not send spam or any other unsolicited communications or promotions. We reserve the right to determine what spam is.
3. Impersonating And Deceiving Others
3.1. Do not do anything that is false or fraudulent.
3.2. Do not impersonate another person, company, organization or entity.
3.3. Do not do anything unethical. We reserve the right to determine what is ethical.
4. Stealing
4.1. Do not sell the Services unless authorized to do so by The Site or publish or use the Services on any other network or system other than that provided by The Site.
5. Infringing, Misappropriating And Violating Rights
5.1. Do not infringe on anyone’s copyright, trademark or other intellectual property.
5.2. Do not violate anyone’s privacy rights.
6. Being rude
6.1. Do not do or post anything harassing, threatening, abusive, violent, offensive, sexually explicit, or obscene.
6.2. Do not advocate bigotry or hatred against any person or group based on their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality, sexual preference, age, gender identity or disability.
7. Breaking The Law
7.1. Do not do anything that violates the law including local laws.
If we deem that you are violating any of these policies or any other behavior that we deem abusive or inappropriate we may take action against your Account and Your Site. We reserve the right to remove any content that violates this policy or in some cased remove the Account and Your Site altogether without any refund at our sole discretion.
