Privacy Policy
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Logging In
To allow you to log in with your social accounts, this site uses the Super Socializer – Social Login plugin. This plugin creates a user profile on this website from the public profile data you provided to the social network you used to login. This includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, and link to your social profile avatar. You can revoke this consent at any time from your profile page on this website.
Your Comments
To help with spam detection, comments you leave in this site are collected along with your IP address and browser user agent string.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Facebook Comments
This site uses the Super Socializer plugin to enable Facebook Commenting.
The Facebook Commenting plugin allows you to leave comments using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
Media
To prevent site visitors from viewing location data on your images, strip embedded data (EXIF GPS) from any images before you upload them.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on this site, for your convenience you can opt to save your name, email address, and website in cookies, so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, several cookies will save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies are removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly the same as it does on the referenced websites.
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.
Who Your Data is Shared With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How Long Your Data is Retained For
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so follow-up comments can be recognized and approved automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
If you register on the website, the personal information you provide is stored with your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time, however you can’t change your username. Website administrators can see and edit the information provided.
Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal information held about you, including any data you provided. You can also request any personal data held about you, excluding any data obliged to be retained for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data is Sent
Your comments might be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Shield Security
Our website uses Shield Security, which is specialist security software, to help prevent data breaches and protect this website and data against hacking attempts and intrusion. Shield Security protects site visitors and works to block potential hacks while monitoring web traffic and filesystem changes. You can learn more about this organization at https://shsec.io/shieldprivacypolicy.
Cookies
The Shield Security plugin never stores any sensitive, personally identifiable information in any cookie at any time. If the plugin needs to redirect a visitor for any request, it may use a cookie to prevent repeated/infinite redirect loops.
For registered/logged-in users, the plugin uses a cookie to track user sessions and control how certain in-plugin admin notices display.
The plugin does not normally use cookies for unregistered site visitors, however it might use a cookie to register the Shield Security security badge closing to prevent repeated display.
Data Storage: User Sessions
For logged-in users, the Shield Security plugin stores information on the username, the IP address, and the time of last login and last activity. This information is purged upon logout or data cleanup.
Data Storage: Audit Trail
The Shield Security plugin has an Audit Trail feature that logs this information:
- Audit Trail message that could include email addresses
- Logged-in username (where applicable)
- Originating IP address of the request
For logged-in users this represents information that could be used to locate (by IP address) and identify individuals and their activity on the site. This information is stored for security purposes by the site administrator. This data will be retained and then automatically purged from the database after a fixed time period, as determined by the site administrator. (As of Jan 2022, this is 7 days.)
Terms of Use
By using and/or visiting this website, you agree to abide by the following rules.
You are Welcome to
Share my photos, posts, and art to social forums with attribution to me, which means including my name and website information.
You will not
Steal any content, whether that be by saving images or by screen grabbing, and presenting it elsewhere as your own or someone else’s, which violates copyright laws.
Take others’ personal information and use it for your own benefit, or to spam other users or contact them without their permission.
Use this site for any illegal activities.
Leave abusive or threatening comments.
Any such actions are unethical, illegal, and makes you an overall crappy human being. As such, anyone behaving in the manner described above, or perpetuating similar shenanigans, will have their accounts removed.
Limitation of Liability
I am not responsible for content errors or omissions on this site. However, if you see an obvious error, please contact me so I can address it.
This website deals in personal experiences, which differ from person to person. As such, I cannot be held liable for other user’s comments.
This site contains links to other websites of which I have no control over, and therefore am not responsible for. Use good judgement and caution when visiting other websites as your use of linked resources is at your own risk.
