Use of personal data collected

Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, but also your IP address and your browser’s user agent are collected to help us detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using the service. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been validated, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and are uploading images to the website, we advise avoiding images that contain EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from these images.

Contact forms – Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you will be asked if your name, email address and website can be saved using cookies. This is only for your convenience so that you don’t have to enter this information if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.

If you go to the login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to store your login information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a connection cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check “Remember me”, your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

If you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not include any personal data. It simply shows the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.

Contact forms – Cookies

If you are a registered user and are uploading images to the website, we advise avoiding images that contain EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from these images.

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Content embedded from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were on that other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and track your interactions with this embedded content if you have an account with them.

Statistics and audience analytics

Use and transmission of your personal data

How long your data is stored

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This allows automatic recognition and approval of subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue. For users who register on our site (if possible), we also store the personal data completed in their profile. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site managers can also view and modify this information.

The rights you have over your data

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you may request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including that which you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not take into account data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Transmission of your personal data

Visitor comments may be checked with an automated comment detection service.