What Information We Collect
Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide while filling out forms (comments, contact forms), and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing the website.
Comments
When you leave a comment on our site, we will collect the data you enter into the comments form along with your IP and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
Your email address will be sent anonymously to the Gravatar service to detect if you have an account there. If so, your Gravatar profile picture will be published alongside your comment after it is approved.
The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here.
Log Data
When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include:
- your device’s IP address, browser type and version,
- pages you visit,
- the time and date of your visit,
- the time spent on each page,
- other details about your visit, and
- technical details that occur with any request errors.
While this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individuals.
Note that we do not attempt to track individual visitors with the above information. We use this to maintain the security of the website and keep our content relevant.
Social Media Sharing
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy.
We use Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy.
Who we share your data with
We may disclose personal information to third party service providers only for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services. These include data storage, hosting and server providers, and analytics platforms.
Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.
Log data are processed for web traffic analytics through Cloudflare and Google Search Console.
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. This also provides context for replies to the comment.
If you want your information to be removed from our database, please contact us. We will remove it anytime there are concerns about your privacy.
How we secure your data
When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it with appropriate measures to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.
Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in case of any data breach.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left a comment, or used our contact forms, you are entitled to request a copy of any data we hold about you and you can ask us to update or correct it if anything is incorrect. You can also request for it to be deleted, unless we are obliged to keep it for administrative, legal, or security purposes. You can request a copy of your data via the contact form at the bottom of this page.
Limits of Our Policy
Children’s Privacy
We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 13.
External Links
Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.
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.
Your Acceptance Of These Terms
By using this website, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not access our website. Your continued use of the website following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Effectivity
This policy is effective as of 11 July 2021 and was last updated on 11 July 2021.
At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.
Contact
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, please use this form: