Privacy Policy

General Information

The following information provides a brief overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data refers to any data that can be used to personally identify you.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent string, to help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in connection with your comment.

Media

When uploading images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from images on the site.

Cookies

When you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you don’t have to re-enter your information the next time you leave a comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

When you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display settings. Login cookies last for two days, and screen display cookies last for one year. If you select “Stay logged in,” your login will persist for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this website may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected, on the one hand, when you provide it to us. This may include, for example, data you enter into a contact form.
Other data is collected automatically or with your consent by our IT systems when you visit the website. This primarily consists of technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you access this website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

When you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if applicable), we also store the personal data they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal data at any time (with the exception of their username, which cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and edit this data.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

If you have an account on this website, left comments or have filled in a form with your details, you can request an exported file containing the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete all personal data we hold about you. This does not apply to data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.