PRIVACY POLICY

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Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser data, to help detect spam.

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An anonymized string created from your email (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here: XXX. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

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Media

If you upload images to the site, avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download these images from the site and extract location data from them.

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Cookies

When you leave a comment on the site, you may opt to save your name, email, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.

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When you log in to your account, we also create several cookies to save your account details and screen display preferences. 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.

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Embedded Media from Other Sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, articles, etc. Embedded content from other sites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other site.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that site.

With Whom We Share Your Data

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties, except as necessary to provide our services or as required by law.

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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 automatically approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (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). Site administrators can also see and edit that information.

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What Are Your Data Rights?

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request 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

This does not include any data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

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Where Your Data Is Sent

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