Privacy Policy
Who are we? Personal data collected by us and the reasons why it is collected.
Comments
The site has a comments section, where visitors can leave their comments. This is where we collect the data available in the comments form, along with the IP address, browser user agent string of the visitor, to help detect spam.
An anonymized string that is generated from the visitor’s email address (known as a hash) might be given to the Gravatar service to check if the visitor uses it. You can have a look at the service policy of the Gravatar. After your comment is approved, the public will be able to see your profile picture along with your comment.
Media
In case you want to upload images, avoid images which have the embedded location data (i.e. EXIF GPS) on the website. Visitors can download and get the location data from the images uploaded on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
When you leave a comment on the website of XYZ, you have the option to save your name, email ID, etc., in cookies. This is specifically for the sake of convenience in order to avoid filling your details time and again when you post another comment. The cookies last for a year.
In case you are having an account with XYZ and use it to login, a temporary cookie will be set to check if cookies are accepted by your browser. This cookie has no personal information. It is discarded on closing the browser.
At the time of logging in, several cookies will be created in order to save the login information and choices of screen display. Cookies pertaining to Login will last for a couple of days, and the cookies related to screen options will last for one year. If “Remember Me” is selected, the login details will last for two weeks. We will remove the login cookies, on logging out of the account.
An additional cookie is saved, in case you publish or even edit an article. The cookie does not include personal information. It only indicates the edited article’s post ID and expires in one day.
Embedded content from other websites
Our website might also have articles which come with embedded content like images, videos, etc. Embedded content included from different websites acts in a similar manner as though the visitor has checked the other website.
These websites might make use of cookies, collect information about you, embed a third-party tracking in order to track your interaction with the specific embedded content in case you log in to the particular website using your account.
Analytics:
Whom your data is shared with and how long your data is retained by us?
Once you post a comment, the comment along with its metadata are saved for an indefinite period. This helps us identify as well as automatically approve your follow-up comments rather than holding the comments in the moderation queue.
For those users who get registered on our website, we save the personal data provided by them in the user profile. Users can check, modify, or delete their personal data any time (however, the username cannot be changed). The administrators of the website are authorized to check and modify that information.
Your rights over your data
In case you are an account holder on our site, or have posted comments, at any point of time, you can request for an exported file related to your personal information which we hold, inclusive of any information you have shared with us. A request can be given to erase your personal information held with us. However, this will not consist of the information that we are supposed to store for various legal, security or administrative purposes.
Where does your data go?
An automated spam detection system is used to check the visitor comments.