What Personal Data We Collect And Why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data provided in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect and prevent spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy can be found.
Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible publicly alongside your comment.
Media
If you upload images to our site, please avoid including images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract any location data from images.
Cookies
When you leave a comment on our site, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. This means you won’t have to re-enter your details for future comments. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and log in to our site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Upon logging in, we will set several cookies to remember your login details and display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, while screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me," your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.
Targeted Advertising
Our site uses tracking technologies, including third-party cookies and non-cookie technologies from advertising partners (such as NextRoll), to recognize your devices and understand how you use our site. This helps us tailor our services to your interests and show you relevant advertisements.
Our partners may collect data about your activity, including IP addresses and cookie identifiers, to:
- Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on our site.
- Display advertisements for our products and services on third-party sites.
- Measure and analyze the performance of our advertising campaigns.
We may share hashed email addresses or other online identifiers with our advertising partners to deliver ads across devices and browsers.
For more details on the technologies used by NextRoll and their cross-device capabilities.
If you are a California resident, you can find information about your privacy and data protection rights.
Opting-Out Of Targeted Advertising
For web (desktop and laptop):
- You can use your browser settings to block third-party cookies or cookies from specific sites.
- On mobile devices, you can limit ad tracking or reset the advertiser identifier in your privacy settings.
Our partners may use non-cookie technologies that may not be affected by cookie-blocking settings. You can use third-party tools to opt out of interest-based advertising, including:
- Digital Advertising Alliance
- Network Advertising Initiative
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (for Europe)
For mobile devices:
- You can limit ad tracking or reset the advertiser identifier via your mobile device's privacy settings.
- You can also use the following tool to opt out of interest-based advertising:
- Network Advertising Initiative - Mobile Choice
To opt-out of NextRoll, Inc., click the button below:
[Opt-out of NextRoll, Inc.](#)
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other sites behaves as if you visited those sites directly.
These external 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 into their site.
Data Retention
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and automatically approve follow-up comments.
For users who register on our site, personal information provided in their profile is stored. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (excluding username changes). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
Your Data Rights
If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you’ve provided. You may also request the deletion of your personal data, excluding data we need to keep for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
Notice to California Residents
California residents can opt out of the sharing or sale of their personal information by visiting our [Do Not Sell My Personal Information](#) page.
For more information about California privacy rights, see the “Your California Privacy Rights” section.
Data Transmission
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.