What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When people leave comments on the website we collect the information shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist spam detection.

An anonymised string created in the email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you’re using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy can be obtained here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your remark, your profile image is visible to the general public from the context of your comment.

Media

Should you upload pictures to the site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location information (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the site can download and extract any location data from pictures.

 

If you leave a comment on our gridhost uk you may opt-in to saving your own name, email address and site in biscuits. All these are for your benefit so you don’t need to fill in your details when you leave the following comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we’ll set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no private data and is lost when you close your browser.

When you log in, we’ll also install several cookies to save your login information and your screen display options. Days, and screen choices cookies last for a year. If you choose”Remember Me”, your login will last for 2 weeks. The login cookies will be removed Should you log out of your accounts.

Should you edit or publish the article, an extra cookie will be saved on your browser. No data is included by this cookie cutter and simply indicates the article ID of the article you edited.

Articles on this website could include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Content from other websites behaves in the specific same manner as if the visitor has seen with the site.

These sites may collect data about you, use biscuits, embed extra third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your discussion with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Analytics

Who we share your information with

Just how long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. That is instead of holding them so we could recognise and accept any followup remarks.

For users that register on our website (if any), then we also save the personal information they provide in their user profile. Administrators edit and may see that info.

When you’ve got an account on this website, or have left comments, you can request to get an exported record of their personal data we hold about you, such as any data you have provided to us. You can ask that we eliminate. This doesn’t include any information we’re obliged to keep for legal, administrative, or safety functions.