Who we are
You are looking at the privacy policy for the website: https:astralsnails.space.
This is a personal blog, run by an individual, not a corporation. I’m not interested in gathering your personal data and this website is not setup to collect additional personal data except what is necessary for you to enable commenting on my posts.
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 anonymised 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.
Cookies
My blog is setup to utilise only those cookies necessary for the functioning of the site and to prevent spam and abuse, as further outlined in this policy.
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.
If you visit our login page, 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.
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.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages and posts on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites has the potential to behave in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other 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 third-party website.
If you wish to further limit this type of external, third-party tracking, I would recommend the use of privacy preserving tools such as privacy and cookies/tracker blocking browser extensions to limit the amount of tracking and data available.
Who we share your data with
We do not share or sell your data.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you 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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
This site is hosted using Hostinger, as the hosting provider they may also capture information related to your visit which is necessary for legal or security purposes. More information can be found in their privacy policy: https://www.hostinger.com/legal/privacy-policy.