Who we are
Our website address is https://www.greg-balogh.com.
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 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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on this 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 have an account and 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.
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 comment on an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you just commented on. 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 exactly 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 website.
Analytics
We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need to know how to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us stay in touch with you, help us securing the site, those that help us maintain and enhance this site (like host providers and analytics providers):
Who we share your data with
We do not sell our commenter’s or contributor’s private personal information.
We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelt out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:
- Third-Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need to know how to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us stay in touch with you, help us securing the site, those that help us maintain and enhance this site.
- Legal Requests: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it–which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information–and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.
For example, we keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to this website, such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 7 days. We retain the logs for this period of time to, among other things to investigate issues if something goes wrong on this website.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments that were approved and become visible, 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.
What third parties we receive data from
We use Google ReCaptcha to fight spam and determine if the submitted comment is coming from a bot or a real human.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
We use Google ReCaptcha to fight spam and determine if the submitted comment is coming from a bot or a real human.
More information and contact
For more information, please contact us via this contact us form.