Page policy

The visitor’s IP address and their browser signature to help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to check if it is being used. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once a comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and upload images to the site, you should avoid uploading images with location EXIF tags. Visitors to the website can download and read the full location data from the images on the website.

Cookies

If you comment on something on the site, you will be able to choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies, so that the above information will be conveniently completed when you write subsequent comments. Cookies expire after a year.

If you visit the login page, we will create a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal information and will be deleted when the browser is closed.

When you log in, we also create a number of cookies that are needed to save your login information and selected screen options. Login cookies expire after two days and screen cookies expire after one year. If you check “Remember me,” your sign-in will expire after two weeks. If you log out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted.

If you modify or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal information, simply pointing to the ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves analogously to the user visiting a specific site directly.

The Sites may collect information about you, use cookies, include additional third-party tracking systems, and monitor your interactions with the Embedded Material, including tracking your interactions with the Embedded Material if you have an account and are logged in to that Site.

Who we share data with

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

How long we keep your data

If you leave a comment, its content and metadata will be stored indefinitely. Thanks to this, we are able to recognize and approve subsequent comments automatically, without sending them to moderation each time.

For users who have registered on our website (if any), we also store the personal information entered in the profile. Any user can access, correct, or delete their personal information at any time (except for a username that cannot be changed). Site administrators can also view and modify this information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have a user account or have commented on this website, you may request that we provide a file with an exported set of your personal information in our possession, including all of the information you have provided. You can also request that we delete all of your personal data in our possession. This does not apply to any data that we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Where we will send your data

Guest comments can be checked using an automated spam detection service.