Comments

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 and to identify our least favorite users.

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. No one really knows what this company is up to.

Images

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included unless you want us to know where you are. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website, so they might know where you are. They is a descriptor that is often associated with suspicious outcomes. You have been warned.

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. We provide this convenience at no financial cost to you. In exchange for this, your thoughts, feelings and actions will be harvested and converted to useful materials as efficiently as possible

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. This setup reinforces the fact that you’re doing this to yourself.

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, but you’ll never be able to remove the memories we’ve shared together.

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, but again, the memories will persist. You’ll never truly be free of us.

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 or completely differently due to technical difficulties or purposeful alteration in order to illicit the strongest response of frustration and anger.

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. Basically, you’ve got just enough rope to hang yourself with.

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, and keep records that we may be required to turn over to the authorities. 

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 just for fun.

Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service and provided to our friends during dinner parties.

The Freedom To Change Above Policies

We reserve the rights to change the above policies without notice for any reason at any time without your consent in order to make decisions that serve the best interest of the public, the truth, this publication, and/or its members,