This is some of that legal mumbo-jumbo so that you can know your rights concerning privacy and what you can expect of us around here. No secrets here!
The simple act of visiting a website leaves a trail of information, a “digital footprint,” about visitors like you. Sometimes this footprint is vague and preserves your anonymity and other times it is tied specifically to you and your real life identity.
If all you do is click around and read pages, the data captured about you is vague. If you leave a comment or sign up for a newsletter, the data captured about you is sometimes very specific. Almost all web sites on the web today collect data in this fashion about visitors, and this site is no different.
It is our belief that you deserve to know how we handle your information. Consequently, the Privacy Policy below is a disclosure concerning our intent with your data. It is not a legally binding contract. It is a statement of intent made in good faith.
If you are unsure what something means, please ask. Contact information is available at the bottom of the Privacy Policy.
Data Collection and Usage
Data is primarily collected and used for the express purpose of enabling you to read, respond to, and discover published content topical to this site.
Comments
We collect information about visitors who comment on our sites via our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
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 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.
Duration
Data may be kept indefinitely.
Commerce
Data is never bartered or sold for commercial gain.
Advertising
Data is used by advertising software in order to render ads that are applicable to you. We don’t sell your info for this, this is just done automatically by Google, Facebook, and almost every other site out there. See “Analytic” below for more details. Again though, nobody will be selling your info and spamming you with emails or something crazy and annoying like that!
Law Enforcement
Data may be given to law enforcement at discretion of site owner.
Analytic
Data may be collected by analytic services.
Contact
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact the site owner via the Contact page. Thanks for participating in this community!