Cookie Policy
What personal information is collected and why?
Comments
When the visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data displayed in the form of comments together with the IP address and browser information text of the visitor in order to help to detect spam comments.
An anonymized text (also called as hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service in order to see whether or not you are using the service. The confidentiality policy of Gravatar service is at the following address: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is verified, your comment will be visible to everyone together with your profile photo.
Environment
If you upload your images to the website, you should avoid uploading images containing embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors of the website can download and obtain the location information from the images on the website.
Contact Forms
If you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to save your name and email address on the website in the cookies. These are used to provide convenience for you, thus you don’t have to fill in your information again when you leave another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.
If you visit our home page, we will provide a temporary cookie to determine whether or not your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is removed when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will save a few cookies in order to save your login information and screen view selection. Login cookies are stored for two days and the screen options cookies for one year. If you mark the “Remember Me” option, your login will last for two weeks. If you log out from your account, login cookies will be deleted.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is recorded to your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and only shows the post ID of the article you edit. It is time barred after 1 day.
Embedded Content
Articles on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, visuals, texts, etc.). Content embedded from other websites acts as the same as if the visitor had visited the website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, track by a third-party in an embedded form, and monitor your actions with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in this website.
Analysis
If you leave a comment, your comment and meta data are kept for an indefinite term. Thus, we can automatically recognize and verify your subsequent comments instead of keeping them in the audit queue.
We also store the personal data of the users registering on our website (if any) that they provide in their user profile. All the users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for changing the user names). Website administrators can also view and edit such data.
If you have an account or comments on this site, you may request to receive an exported file of your personal data, including data you have provided to us. In addition, you may request to have all your personal data deleted. This does not include any data that we have to comply with for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
The comments of the visitors can be controlled via the automated spam comment detection service.