Visitor information
Your name and email address may be collected, if you leave a comment or subscribe to this site. Additionally, information about your geographical location, browser, screen resolution and use of the site may be collected to inform future content creation.
Comments
Visitor comments are moderated and may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Consequently, there may be a short delay before your comment is posted.
When you leave comments on this site the data shown in the comments form is collected, and also your IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam.
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.
Cookies
Cookies are data in the form of text files that a website stores on your browser and which are typically used to recognize returning visitors to improve your experience. You can choose to accept or refuse cookies.
For example, if you leave a comment on this site you may opt-in to saving your name and email address 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.
Embedded content from other websites
If an article on this site includes embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from another website, any such content will be clearly identified. Embedded content from another website behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website. It is your choice whether you interact with embedded content.
Data retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely.