This is boilerplate swill which my hosting company wants me to use. My personal additions are in whatever these things { } are called…
My personal privacy policy is much simpler; I don’t have one. I do not, personally, collect or look at any data which the said hosting company may snag, I don’t even have a mailing list for this blog, and I don’t give anyone access to the user data I don’t collect.
Anyone. Ever. For Any Reason.
Who we are
Our website address is: http://rcmckee.com/rysearch.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
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.
{I’m not actually sure Gravatar is activated here; I’ll kill it if I can. However it, too, is moot as comments are neither wanted nor likely accepted.}
Media
{We don’t accept uploads of any sort, so this really doesn’t apply.}
Contact forms
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 will last for one year.
{Personally I wouldn’t do this, as I hate cookies on principle.}
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
{Please do not set up an account or attempt to log in. There’s nothing to do if you do. Any and all comments must be individually approved before they post, and that ain’t gonna happen, so…}
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
(Not so. At most I may include a link to other sites, but I won’t be showing their content here. If you click on a link, you’ll go to their page, over which I have no control whatsoever.}
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
{Nobody. We don’t even collect it, nor do we care.}
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
{except that here it doesn’t work that way. We have no automatic moderation or approval of anything at any time. I don’t even approve my own comments more often than not.}
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
{We’ll delete your account as soon as we notice it exists… which it shouldn’t. Just don’t, okay?}
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.