Privacy Policy

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, the data shown in the comments form is collected, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymised 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.

Visitor comments may also be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on the site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. This is purely 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.

The cookies currently in use on this site are…

_ga (Google Analytics)
Records a particular ID used to come up with data about website usage by the user.

_ga_# (Google Analytics)
Used to distinguish individual users by means of a randomly generated client identification number, which allows calculation of visits and sessions.

comment_author
comment_author_email
comment_author_url
Generated when a user submits a comment on the site.

wpconsent_preferences
Used to store the user’s cookie consent preferences for 30 days.

Embedded content

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.

Data retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so the site can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Your rights

If you have left comments on the site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data held about you, including any data you may have submitted. You can also request that any personal data held is permanently deleted.