What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When a visitor to the site leaves a comment, we collect the data visible in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser signature as an aid to spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (the so-called hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be able to choose to save your name, email address and website address in cookies so that when you write subsequent comments the above information will already be conveniently completed. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, we will create a temporary cookie for the purpose of verifying that your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal information and will be discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we additionally create several cookies needed to save your login information and selected screen options. The login cookies expire after two days and the screen options after one year. If you check the “Remember me” option, your login expires 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.
Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves analogously to the way a user would visit a specific site directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analysis of statistics
With whom we share data
How long we keep your data
If you leave a comment, its content and metadata will be stored indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve subsequent comments automatically, without sending them for 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 review, correct or delete his or her personal information at any time (except for the username, which cannot be changed). Site administrators can also view and modify this information.
What rights you have to your data
If you have a user account or have added comments on this site, you can request a file with an exported set of your personal data in our possession, including the entirety of those provided by you. You may 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 send your data
Visitor comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.