List of personal data we collect and the reason for it
Comments
- We collect data filled in the comments form when visitors to the site leave comments on it, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent to help detect spam.
- The public can view your profile picture in the context of your comment after the approval of your comment.
- We screen your comments for civility and filter automated comments and abusive comments.
Contact forms
1. Cookies
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When commenting on our site, you may choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is to ensure convenience so that you don’t have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment
- If you log in to our site with an existing account, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies or not. This cookie doesn’t contain any personal data and is discarded once you close your browser.
2. Embedded content from other websites
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Articles on our website may contain embedded content in the form of videos, images, articles or more. Embedded content from other sites behaves in the manner that it would if the visitor had visited the other site.
- These sites may collect your data, use cookies, embed more third-party tracking and monitor interactions with the embedded content. If you have an account and are logged in to that website, your interaction with the embedded content may be traced.
3. Analytics
1. With whom do we share your data?
At present, we don’t deliberately or intentionally share your data with a third party that’s not affiliated with our business.
2. How long is your data retained for?
- The metadata of any comment left on the site is retained indefinitely to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
- We also store the personal information that users registered on our website (if any) provide in their user profiles. All users can view, edit or delete their personal details at any time but cannot change their username. Website administrators can also view the information in question.
4. Where your data goes
An automated spam detection service may be utilized for checking visitor comments. These comments may be checked through a manual spam/inappropriate comments filtration service.
5. Your contact information
Additional information
How your data is protected
The hosting service’s protections are extended to all of our website users. This provision includes extensions or limitations to the data protection that the web hosting service offers.
Our data breach procedures
The hosting service’s data safety and breach procedures are applied to your data.
What third parties we receive data from
Occasionally, we receive additional marketing and customer data from various third parties to improve our business and business practices.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Occasionally, we utilize automated decision making tools to aide us in evaluating the data we have obtained and collected through various sources.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
We follow all regulatory disclosure requirements. Necessary steps will be taken to abide by the guidelines and requirements if we determine that any additional requirements are required or desired.
