What personal information we gather and why

1. Comments

We gather the information provided in the comments form, the visitor's IP address, and the user agent string from their browser when they leave comments on our site in order to assist in avoiding spam.

The Gravatar service may get an encrypted string (also known as a hash) made from your email address in order to determine whether you are utilising it. You may access the privacy statement for the Gravatar service here : https://www.kaelven.com/usa/about-us/privacy-policy. Once your comment has been approved, the whole public can see your profile image beside it.

2. MEDIA

Avoid posting photos to the website that have embedded location data (EXIF GPS) in them. Considering that users of the website can download and extract any location data from the website's photographs.

3. Contact Forms

If you post a comment on our website, you can choose to allow cookies to store your name, email address, and website. These are provided for your convenience so that you won't have to re-enter your information each time you post a remark. The shelf life of these cookies is one year. We will set a provisional cookie to see if your browser accepts cookies if you have an account and log in to our site. However, this cookie is deleted when you leave your browser and does not store any personal information.

We will also create a number of cookies when you log in to save your login details and screen display preferences. Screen option cookies last a year, whereas login cookies are only valid for two days. In other words, if you choose "Remember Me," your login will last for two weeks. On the other hand, the login cookies will be deleted if you log out from your account. In your browser, a new cookie will be saved if you edit or publish an article.However, this cookie only contains the post ID of the article you just changed and contains no personal information. It runs out after a day

4. Material from other websites that is embedded

This website's articles can have embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). When another website's content is embedded, it operates exactly as if the visitor had really visited the other website.

These websites may gather information about you, use cookies, incorporate additional third-party tracking, and keep track of how you interact with the embedded content. If you have an account and it's logged into the website in question, they may even be able to track how you interact with the embedded content.

5. How long we keep your information

If you post a comment, both the comment and any associated information are kept forever.This allows us to detect and approve any subsequent comments without having to manually moderate them.

In the event that any users register on our website, we additionally retain the personal data they supply in their user profile. Anytime, any user may access, amend, or delete their personal information (except they cannot change their username). Administrators of the website can also access and modify that data.

6. What rights you have about your data and where it is sent

You have the right to request to obtain an exported file of the personal information we possess about you, along with any data you have given us, if you have an account on our site or have posted comments. You can also ask us to delete any personal information we may have about you. This does not apply to any information that we are required to store for administrative, legal, or security reasons, though. An automatic spam detection service may be used to review visitor comments.