Privacy & User Data Policy

1. Comments

When you leave a comment on the website, we collect the information in the comment form, your IP address and your browser's user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. You can read Gravatar's privacy policy here. After your comment is approved, your profile picture (if any) will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

2. Media

When uploading images to the website, you should avoid including location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download images and extract location data from them if present.

3. Cookies

If you leave a comment, you can choose to save your name, email and website in cookies for your convenience the next time you comment. These cookies last for 1 year.
When you visit the login page, a temporary cookie is set to check whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, we set cookies to remember your login information and display preferences. Login cookies last for 2 days, or 2 weeks if you select “Remember me”. When you log out, these cookies are removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie (containing no personal information) stores the article ID and expires after 1 day.

4. Embedded content from other websites

Articles on the website may include embedded content (videos, images, articles from other platforms). This content behaves exactly as if you had visited those websites directly. These sites may collect data, use cookies, and track your interactions if you are logged in to their accounts.

5. Data sharing

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

6. Data retention

Comments and related data are retained indefinitely so that follow-up comments can be recognized and approved automatically.
For users with an account, we store personal information in the account profile. You can view, edit or delete your personal information at any time (except your username). Administrators can also access and edit this information.

7. Your rights over your personal data

You can request a copy of the personal data we hold, or request deletion of all data. This does not include data we are required to retain for legal, administrative or security reasons.

8. Where your data is sent

Comments from visitors (non-members) may be checked automatically through a spam detection service.