Privacy Policy

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Who we are

Our website address is: http://blog.theotokos.co.za.

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.  Using a fake email address is recommended, but may be considered spam by the spam analyser.

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.

Media

If you upload images to the website (which you can’t do), 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

Data collected in quizzes and forms are stored indefinitely by Google for whatever use they may have in the future.  Contact details are not collected by Google.

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 until they expire.

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 until they expire. 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 (you can’t do this either), 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.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Sometimes visit history and page visits are analysed.

Who we share your data with

Nobody, unless you’re downright rude.  If you’re a spammer, your data may be shared with spam databases.

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 (don’t worry, you can’t) 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.

If you subscribe to comments or posts, WordPress knows who you are and stores your contact details.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can, in vain, 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, again in vain, 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.

Your contact information

If you contact us by email, your data is stored indefinitely, and if you’re rude, it may be published with your contact details.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We don’t.  National Sunday Law may cover that.

What data breach procedures we have in place

None.

What third parties we receive data from

Jesuits.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

None.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Read the Bible.  The real one.  Not the Clear Word.

Spam comments

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
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