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Comments
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An apparently unique code from your email address can be provided to Gravatar service to check if it is being used for your account. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved for publication, your profile picture is publicly displayed beside your comment.
Media
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Cookies
Suggested text: If you comment on this site you may be asked to opt-in to have your name, email address and site stored in a cookie. These are so that you do no have to key in your details each time you decide to leave another comment. These cookies will remain on the user’s device for one year.
If you go to our login page, we will place a temporary cookie to see if the cookies are enabled by your web browser. I found that this cookie does not store any personal data and, consequently, its data are deleted when the user shuts their browser.
The cookies that will be installed on your browser when you log in will also include several that will store your login information as well as your preferred screen display settings. By using the login cookies, the web site allows the cookies to run out in two days, while by using screen options cookies, it allows such cookies to run out in one year. You will have to remember to log out if you choose “Remember Me” option because it relogs you in every two weeks. Note that the login cookies may be cleared if you choose to log out of your account.
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These websites may obtain information about you, employ cookies and may also incorporate further extra third-party tracking of your usage of the embedded content; this tracking can also occur if you have an account and are signed into that website.
Who we share your data with
Suggested text: If you use our password reset service the IP address you used to register your account will be spelt in the password reset email.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, then that comment, along with any metadata (such as your email address) is retained indefinitely. This is because we want to be able to automatically approve any future comments posted instead of keeping them on a moderation queue.
For registered users that may interfacing with our website (if any), we also store such personal information that they provide in the user profile. Note that all user information is fully editable, viewable or deletable as per the user’s desire except the username. Other related information which can be seen and edited by the website administrators is also incorporated.
What you can do concerning the data(collected throughout journey)
Suggested text: If you are a user of this site or you have left comments it will be possible for you to ask for your personal data in an exported file together with the data you have volunteered to provide to us. You also have the right to request that we delete any personal data we hold on you. This exclude any data that we may hold and which we are under legal requirement to hold as record for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Suggested text: The comments of the visitors are moderated through the use of an automated spam filter.