Each commenter’s provided information (such their name, email address, website, and IP address) and the user’s browser information is saved and used for spam detection (including the user agent string to help identify spam). Any photos you plan on posting online should be without embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Viewers of the site can access the geolocation information associated with any image they upload.
The “cookie” of a user who posts a comment on our site contains the user’s name, email address, and website. The next time you want to leave a remark on a site, rather of typing out your whole name, email address, and website, just use the relevant bits from the previously saved comments. You can store these cookies for an entire year without worrying about them going stale. By setting a temporary cookie when you log in as a registered user, we may check if your browser is cookie-enabled. When you shut your browser, this cookie and any data it may have held will be deleted.
Cookies are created to remember things like your login information and preferred display settings when you check in. Users’ preferences are stored in a cookie for a year, while the login cookie only lasts for two days. Clicking “Remember Me” will save your login information for two weeks. Logout will cause a new set of login cookies to be created. With each click of “Save” or “Publish” after making edits to the article, a new cookie will be added to your browser’s cookie folder. Neither your name nor any other identifying data are stored in this cookie; it just maintains track of the article you are currently updating. The device will stop working after one day.
Included with the articles on this site could be supplemental materials including audio, video, and written text (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). When a user interacts with an embedded object, they are effectively taken to the external website. Even if you have an account and are logged in, the sites in question may still gather information about you, use cookies, embed extra third-party monitoring, and track your activity with the embedded material.
Which Third Parties We Will Share Your Information The Time Period for Which We Keep Your Information When and how long will your data be kept? Your feedback, together with any additional metadata you supply, will be archived indefinitely. If further comments are accepted immediately after detection, a moderation queue is unnecessary. When a user signs up for our service, we collect the information they submit in their profile, which may contain their contact information. Profiles can be updated or deleted at any time (except they cannot change their username). Site administrators get access to all data, just like regular users.
You may request an exported file containing all the personal information we possess on you, including information you have provided to us, if you have an account or have posted comments on our site. If at any point you decide you no longer want us to store any of your personal information, you may make that request. Only records that serve administrative, legal, or security needs will be kept.
