Terms & Conditions

Privacy Policy

This page contains information related to our Privacy Policy, including the data collected through cookies, third party sites, how long we store this data and your rights regarding the collected data.

The personal information we collect and why we collect it.

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the information displayed in the comment form, as well as the visitor's IP address and browser user agent to help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be given to the Gravatar service to see if you use it. The Gravatar Service Privacy Policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in connection with your comment.

Media

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

Contact sheet

If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose to save your name, e-mail address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will be for a year.

Cookies

If you have an account and you log in to this page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal information and is discarded when you close the browser.

When you log in, several cookies will be created to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies are valid for two days. The screen options cookies valid for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login will continue for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal information and only indicates the post ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may contain embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking from third parties and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who do we share your data with and how long do we keep your data?

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will remain indefinite. This is so that we can recognize and approve any follow- up comments automatically instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

The rights do you have to your data

If you have an account on this website or have left comments, you can request that you receive an exported file with the personal

information we have about you, including all information you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete all personal information we hold about you. This does not include any information that we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security purposes.