We’re all friends here, more or less, but we thought we’d be up front about our privacy policies and other website-related things. We care about your privacy!
Comments
We are eager to hear from you! That said, unnecessary vulgarity, personal attacks, and nonsense will always be deleted from the comments section. And we encourage you to report abuse here.
When visitors leave comments on the site a program automatically collects the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, in order to help detect spam.
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/. When you comment through Gravatar, your profile picture, if you have one, will be visible.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content behaves as if you have visited the hosting 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. We have no control over this, which is some of why we don’t often embed content.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so that you are an approved commentator.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments will be automatically checked through an automated spam detection service. And if you’ve subscribed to our newsletter, Constant Contact keeps track of your information. But that’s it. We’d never sell or disburse any information we have about you. Thanks for reading this!