PRIVACY
Who we are – This is a personal blog and the website address is: https://www.markehughey.com.
Media
We will need to approve uploads and posts and comments, including electronic images and videos (hereafter called media or images). If you send us or 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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site 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 also 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.
Visits to the website and leaving comments or linking to the site may be tracked or recorded by the browser you use or spam detection services, and even internal programs on the device you are using. We do not control this and you will need to check your browser settings and review the policies of these as well as the polices about settings on your device or computer as far as how they are tracking your web presence.
Comments
We typically allow comments by permsission. When visitors leave comments on the site 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 an outside product/ vendor 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site 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.
Who we share your data with
We reserve the right to share your data about your visit to the website with our plug ins, and companies (vendors) that have advertising on the blog / website. You may opt out by contacting us. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Visits to the website and leaving comments or linking to the site may be recorded by the browser you use or automated spam detection services. We do not control this and you will need to check your browser settings and their polices about recording and tracking your web presence.
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 (if any), 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 agree to data pertaining to leaving the information and comments. You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, but this does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where data is tracked and where data may be sent
Visits to the website and leaving comments or linking to the site may be recorded by the browser you use or automated spam detection services. We do not control this and you will need to check your browser settings and their polices about recording and tracking your web presence.