Who we are
Locations of Lore is an informational blog specifically aimed at website visitors from the Northeast United States. Our website address is: http://locationsoflore.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 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.
Contact Form
The Contact form will collect the data entered into its corresponding fields. The data may be retained indefinitely.
Email Dispatch
When you use this site several actions (e.g. commenting) trigger the dispatch of emails. They contain information about you associated with your email address. Which data are part of these emails depends on the action performed. These emails are stored and accessible to the site management as log.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
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.
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.
To display our social media profile links and allow users to share posts on social media, this site uses the AddToAny plugin. It writes cookies and, according to its FAQ, doesn’t store personal data: https://www.addtoany.com/buttons/faq/#data-privacy
This site utilizes Google Analytics, which writes cookies. For further information, please see the “Analytics” section below.
This site uses Koko Analytics which is currently configured to write a cookie. For further information, please see “Analytics” section below.
Clicking “OKAY” on our cookie notification banner writes a cookie so that it won’t reappear for a set amount of time.
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.
Analytics
This site makes use of Google Analytics 4 for web traffic analysis. For information about how that service uses data, please visit the following link:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
This site makes use of Cloudflare Web Analytics for web traffic analysis. According to its website, this service writes no cookies and does not collect any personal information:
https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/
This site makes use of Koko Analytics for web traffic analysis. The data is not transmitted to a third party and no personal information is collected. It is currently configured to write a cookie to identify returning visitors.
Server Log Files
Website traffic data, which includes IP addresses, is automatically stored by the web servers which host this website. This is a standard practice for reasons including security.
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.
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.
What rights you have over your data
Where applicable by law, 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.
Various data may be submitted to Google for analytics. Please see Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Various data may be submitted to Cloudflare for analytics. Please see Cloudeflare’s website:
https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/
Contact information
For privacy and data-related questions, please contact us at info[at]locationsoflore[dot]com or use the Contact page.
