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As a general principle, I don’t want your private information and have no intention to use it. There are, however, operations on the site that process some visitor data in order to ensure proper functioning of the website and to maintain its security. These may have been set up by other entities, giving me limited control over the information they acquire. The sections below incorporate privacy-policy text suggested by the makers of WordPress.org and the Jetpack plugin.
Protection
In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, Jetpack uses the following information: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s e-mail address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.
Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). Jetpack also sets a cookie (jpp_math_pass) for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human. Learn more about this cookie: https://jetpack.com/support/cookies/#protect.
Data Synced: Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or e-mail address, and user agent information.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on this site, WordPress may set a cookie. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit a login page, WordPress 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.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, WordPress collects 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 e-mail 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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Comments may also be held for moderation.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so the site can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Forms
When Akismet is enabled on the site, contact form submission data—IP address, user agent, name, e-mail address, website, and message—is submitted to the Akismet service (owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is e-mailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This e-mail will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, e-mail address, website, and message.
Data Synced: Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission. When Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.
Site Statistics
To generate website stats, Jetpack uses the following: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs—containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available)—are retained by Automattic (makers of Jetpack) for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.
Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the JavaScript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that the plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, JavaScript files, CSS files, etc.).
This site is set up to honor DNT (Do Not Track) settings of visitors.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data the sites holds about you, including any data you have provided to the site. You can also request that I erase any personal data the site holds about you. This does not include any data the site is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Other Ways Your Data Might Be Used or Shared
There are essentially four other circumstances in which I would knowingly make use of or share data about you (including your e-mail address if you choose to provide it when leaving a comment):
1. Obviously, if you submit a comment on the website, you agree that the comment may become public and viewable by others, so whatever you put in the comment may be shared, along with the name you provide when leaving the comment.
2. If the content in your comment(s) is so problematic (see below) that I think it warrants intervention by outside parties, I might disclose information to relevant and appropriate persons or agencies.
3. I may provide information to proper authorities to comply with legitimate investigations by law-enforcement agencies.
4. I will provide information to proper authorities if required to do so by applicable U.S. federal, state, or local law.
When Is Content “Problematic”?
Content that you submit within a comment may be considered problematic if it:
• makes threats;
• appears libelous;
• suggests suicidal plans;
• condones or encourages any kind of child abuse;
• can reasonably be classified as hate speech; or
• otherwise seems illegal.
Content is NOT considered problematic to the point of warranting outside intervention merely for:
• criticizing my work;
• demonstrating that you’re an ordinary jerk;
• using a curse word;
• employing horrendous grammar;
• expressing stupid political opinions; or
• displaying a smug and cocky attitude.
Please note that I still have a moderator’s discretion to remove or prevent publication of a comment even if the content does not merit involvement by outside parties.
Ways Your Data Definitely Won’t Be Used or Shared
I won’t send you romantic messages.
I won’t add you to a mailing list.
I won’t send you offers selling something or suggesting an investment opportunity.
I won’t knowingly provide your information to anyone else seeking to do these things.
Embedded Content
Embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) 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.
Uploading 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.