Privacy Policy
What personal data we collect and why we collect it?
1. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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 here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
2. Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
3. 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 in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. 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.
How long we retain your data?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data?
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data?
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Cookies
To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. Most big websites do this too.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
This website uses the following cookies
Necessary cookies:
- A Session ID cookie, created by our site’s software in order to initiate and maintain your session and it expires as soon as you close the browser.
- A Consent cookie that stores whether you consent or not to the use of cookies.
Performance cookies:
We use Google Analytics to monitor visitor behavior on our website in order to improve our information and services.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, to help us see how our website is used. In doing so, information about your use of our website may be transmitted to Google. The data collected by Google Analytics is used to analyze how frequently the same people revisit our site, how the website is found and which pages are most frequently viewed. This information is never identified individually or personally.
The cookies used are the following:
_gat, expires in 1 minute
_gid, expires in 24 hours
_ga, expires in 2 years
The cookies used are the following:
OT-Session-Update-Date, expires in half an hour
OT-SessionId, expires in half an hour
Otuvid, expires as soon as you close your browser
ak_bmsc, expires in 2 hours
How to control cookies?
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.