Cookies
If you leave a comment on our website, you can enable the storage of your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your information again when you leave another comment. These cookies will be stored for 1 year.
If you have an account on the site and you log in, we will set a 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.
When you log in, we will also set several cookies to save your login information and screen settings. The login cookies are stored for 2 days and the screen settings cookies are stored for 1 year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login information will be stored for 2 weeks. If you log out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and simply indicates the ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the user had visited another website.
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embedded third-party tracking applications, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content. This includes tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that site.
How long we keep your data
If you leave a comment, it and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This way, we can automatically identify and approve each subsequent comment instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.
Where your data is sent to
Visitors’ comments can be checked using an automatic spam detection service.