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This policy explains our personal information handling practices. It describes how we may collect, use, and disclose information about you or your use of our content, products, or services. 

How long we retain your data

Information you submit to us is retained for as long as is necessary to facilitate the service and/or for record keeping purposes.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.

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 anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.

Cookies and related technologies

If you leave a comment on our site 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. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

We may utilise a number of third party services which make use of cookies, beacons, local storage and other technologies to gather information about visitor activity in order to deliver their services.

These third parties may include:

a) marketing and promotions service providers including social media platforms, such as Facebook, and digital advertising services;

b) analytics service providers, such as Google Analytics (more information here).

Popular browsers will also usually give users a level of control over cookies, so that you can set your browser to accept or reject all, or certain, cookies. You may also be able to set your browser to prompt you each time a cookie is offered.

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.

Disclaimers

We may provide links to other sites for your convenience, however we take no responsibility as to the accuracy or currency of information on those sites. We do not endorse any information, goods or services referred to within the linked to sites and our provision of links should not be taken to be an endorsement.

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