COOKIES
We use cookies in limited circumstances:
- If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
- If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
- If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
LOG DATA
We use a cookieless analytics solution hosted on our server. The usage statistics it provides us are entirely anonymous and derived from log data. We don’t store personally identifiable information. What we can find out through log data, is:
- Which geographic location an anonymous visitor is from (continent, country, region, and city)
- Which operating system and browser the anonymous visitor uses
- How many bytes of data are transferred to the anonymous visitor
- Which date and time an anonymous visitor accessed a page
- An anonymous visitor’s IP address and device identifier
- Which of our pages were visited by anonymous visitors
- Which websites referred anonymous visitors to us
- Errors experienced by anonymous visitors
- If an anonymous view was unique or not
COMMENTS
When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
MEDIA
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
You retain all IP rights to your own media. We don’t use your media for marketing purposes.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
CONTACT FORM
If you choose to contact us via our contact form, we’ll receive the information you provide us with, that being your chosen name, your email address and your message. We receive these contact requests as an email. These emails are deleted immediately when no longer relevant, but in any case after 1 year.
FORUM
We operate a forum as part of our service. Here’s how we handle data related to our forum:
ACCOUNT CREATION
To participate in our forum, users must create an account. During registration, we collect:
- A chosen username
- A password (securely hashed)
- An email address
PUBLIC INFORMATION
Usernames and Gravatars (globally recognized avatars) are publicly visible on the forum.
DATA RETENTION
We retain user data and forum posts until the user chooses to delete their profile.
USER CONTROL
Users can access their full user information through their profile and request all their data. They also have the option to delete their account at any time.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA
We never share your data with any third party. It is stored on our server located in Germany, and thus also subject to GDPR.
WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR DATA
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Our privacy policy has stood unchanged since: 18.07.2024