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If you leave comments on the site, anything you enter in the comments form, your IP address, browser user agent, and attributes about your browser are stored. A hash of your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you have a profile, if so, your profile picture will be visible to the public. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
If you upload images, you are responsible for ensuring all metadata (eg: EXIF GPS) has been stripped. Visitors to the website can download and extract any data from images on the site.
cookies
If you leave a comment you may opt-in to saving your name, email 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.
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.
If you log in, that is you have a username and password on this site, several cookies will be set to save your login information and your preferences.
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.
You should assume all cookies last forever, or until you manually clear them from your browser.
embedded content from other websites
Articles may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you 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.
who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
how long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
what rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site (which you do not), you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data I have about you, including any data you have provided. Account holders can also request I erase any personal data I have about you.
where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
But, seriously, if you publish or comment on anything online, it’s best to assume it’ll survive in some cache somewhere until the sun death of the universe.