Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://paulvanginkel.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data provided in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to assist with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture becomes visible to the public within the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to our website, we advise against including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from images posted on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not need to re-enter your details for future comments. These cookies remain active for one year.

When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Upon logging in, several cookies are set to store your login details and screen display preferences. Login cookies remain active for two days, while screen options cookies persist for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login credentials will be stored for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only indicates the post ID of the article you have edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, and articles). Embedded content from other websites functions in the same manner as if you were visiting those websites directly.

These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interactions if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data Retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic approval of subsequent comments.

For users who register on our website (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All registered users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username, which cannot be changed). Website administrators also have access to and can modify this information.

Your Data Rights

If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you may request an exported file containing the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. However, this excludes data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data is Sent

Visitor comments may be analyzed through an automated spam detection service.