What personal data do we collect and for what purpose?
Comments
If a visitor leaves a comment on our website, we collect the data entered in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and user-agent browser data in order to detect spam.
Media files
If you are registered on our website and upload photos to it, you may want to avoid uploading images with EXIF metadata as they may contain GPS location data.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our website, you can enable the option to save your name, email address, and website in a cookie. This is done for convenience so that you do not have to fill in the information again when commenting again. The cookie data is stored for one year.
If you have an account on our website and log in, we will set a special temporary cookie to determine if your browser supports cookies. The cookie does not contain any personal information and is deleted when you close your browser!
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on our website may include embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.) that behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited another website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, track your interaction with embedded files, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that website.
How long do we keep your data
If you leave any comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This is done in order to automatically recognize and approve any subsequent comments instead of putting them in a queue for approval. For registered users, we store the personal information they provide in their profile. All users can view, edit, or delete the information from their profile at any time (except for their username).
What are your rights to your data
If you have an account or comment on our website, you may request an export file of the personal data we have stored about you, including any data you have provided to us. You may also request that we erase this data, which does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.