About This Site
This is a personal blog maintained by an individual for sharing thoughts, experiences, and interests. It is not affiliated with any company, organization, or commercial entity.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information entered in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent to help detect spam.
If you use Gravatar, an anonymized string (hash) of your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if your profile is associated. Once your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile picture may be publicly visible alongside your comment.
You can view the Gravatar privacy policy here .
Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors may be able to download and extract location data from uploaded images.
Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your experience:
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These last for one year.
- Login Cookies: When you log in, we set cookies to store your login status and screen preferences:
- Login cookies last for two days.
- Screen preference cookies last for one year.
- If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks.
- Logging out removes these cookies.
- Login Cookies: When you log in, we set cookies to store your login status and screen preferences:
- Temporary Cookies: Visiting the login page sets a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is discarded after you close your browser.
- Publishing Cookies: If you edit or publish content, a cookie is stored to track the post ID of the article. This cookie contains no personal data and expires after one day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves the same as if you visited the original site directly.
These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction—especially if you are logged in to those services.
Data Sharing
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email for security purposes.
Advertising
This site may show ads provided by Google or other advertising partners. These ads may use cookies to display content that is more relevant to you based on your visits to this and other websites.
You can learn more about how Google uses your data and how to control your ad settings here.
Data Retention
- Comments: Comments and related metadata are retained indefinitely to allow automatic approval of future comments.
- User Accounts: If you register on the site, your personal information is stored in your user profile. You can view, edit, or delete your information at any time (except for your username). Website administrators can also access and update this data.
Your Data Rights
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.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.