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Commenting

When you leave comments on our site, we collect the information shown in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. We might provide your email address in an anonymized form (known as a hash) to the Gravatar service to check if you’re using it. You can find Gravatar’s privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Uploading Media

If you upload images to the site, try not to include images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Website visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the site.

Cookies

Leaving a comment on our site gives you the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience, so you don’t have to re-enter your details next time you comment. These cookies last for one year. Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies; this cookie doesn’t contain personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. Logging in sets cookies to remember your login info and display choices, lasting two days for login cookies and one year for screen options cookies. Choosing “Remember Me” keeps you logged in for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies. Editing or publishing an article sets a cookie that indicates the post ID of the article you edited, expiring after 1 day.

Embedded Content

Our site may feature embedded content (like videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites. This content behaves just as it would if you were visiting its originating website. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking if you are logged in to those websites.

Data Sharing

Your IP address will be included in the reset email if you request a password reset.

Data Retention

Comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. We store personal information provided by users who register on our website (if any) in their user profiles. Users can edit or delete their personal information at any time (username changes not permitted). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

Your Data Rights

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request the erasure of your personal data. This excludes data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Processing

Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.