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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is a statement that discloses the ways information is gathered, used, disclosed, and managed, cookie and analytics details, and how that information is protected by the company.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

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

An anonymised 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 included. Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill your details in again if you leave other comments. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content, such as 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. This includes tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

We do not sell, lease, rent or otherwise disclose your personal data to third parties unless otherwise stated.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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 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.

Your contact information

We do not store any personal contact information without your express permission.

Additional information

How we protect your data

Personal data shall be subject to additional safeguards to ensure this data is processed securely. Access to this data will be strictly limited to a minimum number of individuals and subject to confidentiality commitments.  We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In case of a data breach, administrators will immediately work through affected users and reset passwords if needed after informing the user.

What third parties we receive data from

We may receive data from third parties such as Google, Facebook,  data brokers or aggregators.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data?

We only use user data to provide services on this website and target users for advertisements to remind them of the services we provide.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Other than breach notifications, we are not aware of any regulatory disclosures we must provide.