When visitors leave comments, we collect the information entered in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent to help with spam detection.
A hashed/anonymized value derived from your email address may be shared with Gravatar to determine whether you use that service. After a comment is approved, any associated profile picture may be publicly visible alongside the comment.
If you upload images to the site, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors may be able to download images and extract embedded location metadata.
If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies typically remain for up to one year.
If you log in (where applicable), we may set:
If you choose a “Remember Me” option, your login may persist for an extended period. Logging out typically removes login cookies.
If you edit or publish content, an additional cookie may be stored to reference the content ID; it generally expires after about a day.
Content on this site may include embedded items (for example: videos, images, articles). Embedded content behaves as if you visited the third-party site directly.
Those third parties may collect data about you, use cookies, add tracking, and monitor your interaction—especially if you have an account with them and are logged in.
If you leave a comment, the comment and related metadata may be retained indefinitely to help with follow-up approvals and moderation.
If user accounts exist on the site, information provided in a user profile may be stored. Users can typically view, edit, or delete their personal information (except usernames may not be changeable). Site administrators may also access and manage this information.
If you have an account and/or have left comments, you can request:
This may exclude data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
Visitor comments may be checked using an automated spam detection service.
Text-message opt-in information is not shared with third parties.
