Personal Data Collected By Clear The Lens
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How long Clear The Lens retains your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
You will never be asked to provide private information. You will never be asked to provide any information. If you post comments with sensitive information, you are wholly responsible for that. You have the choice to consent to whether or not cookies will collect your user activity.
Where Clear The Lens sends your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
A warning about posting your data
Please don’t post personal information about yourself on this website. This is a blog and does not require any personal information from you. Please leave comments and share your opinions but remember basic internet safety. So basically, there is no protection because this website is not designed to collect personal information from you.
However, if you consent to have your data collected, the cookies on this website will collect data about your user activity. This will determine the advertisement you see on this website. It is your prerogative to decide whether or not you are okay with that.