This Online Privacy Statement (this “Statement”) describes the information we collect from or about you through this website. It also describes how we use and share that information and some of the steps we take to protect your privacy.
Please take a few minutes to read this statement before using this website. By using this website, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information as described in this notice. If you do not agree to be bound by this notice, you should not access or use this website.
Sources of Information We Collect
We use a combination of information from your web browser and device to help us improve this website and make it more compatible with the technologies our visitors use. We may also combine it with other information to identify you. We may also review our server logs for security purposes – for example, to detect intrusions into our network – and we may share our server logs, which contain the IP addresses of our visitors, with appropriate investigative agencies, who may use this information to obtain information that tracks and identifies you.
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
Information about third-party cookies
In addition to serving cookies to your computer or mobile device through this website, certain third parties may serve cookies to you for a variety of reasons. For example, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis tool that helps us understand how visitors interact with our website.
Other third parties may send cookies to your computer or mobile device in order to track your online behavior over time on unaffiliated websites and/or to serve targeted advertising on this or other websites. We have no control over the cookies used by these other third parties.
You will be directed to an industry-developed website that includes mechanisms to choose whether each listed entity may collect and use data for online behavioral advertising purposes. Certain third parties who collect interest-based information on this site may not participate in industry-developed opt-out sites, in which case the best way to prevent third parties from tracking your online behavior may be through your browser Set and delete cookies.
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
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
We take steps to protect your information
We take reasonable administrative, physical and technical measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the personal information you submit on or through this website. Unfortunately, no website, server or database is completely secure or “hack proof”. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be disclosed, misused or lost due to the accidental or unauthorized acts of others. In addition, we have no control over the dissemination of personal information that you post on or through this site using any social networking tools we may provide, and you should have no expectation of privacy regarding anything you post publicly.
Links to other websites
This website may provide links to other websites operated by third parties, including in some cases our third-party suppliers. Any information you provide to third parties on third-party websites is covered by their privacy and data collection policies and is not covered by this notice.
