Privacy Policy

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar 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.

If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.
Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images.

Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
Login Cookies:
- When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- Upon logging in, multiple cookies will be set to save your login details and screen display preferences.
  - Login cookies last for two days.
  - Screen options cookies last for a year.
  - If “Remember Me” is selected, login persists for two weeks.
  - Logging out removes login cookies.
Publishing Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. It includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the edited article. This expires after one day.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles).
Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.
These websites may:
- Collect data about you.
- Use cookies.
- Embed additional third-party tracking.
- Monitor interaction with embedded content, including tracking interactions if logged into that website.

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

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
For registered users, personal information provided in their user profile is stored.
- Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username).
- Website administrators can also see and edit this information.

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold, except for data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.