This page was created on June 11, 2018.
Darienite.com has been encouraged to set up this privacy policy page by its web hosting service, and nearly all of the information below is from that service (we’ve added a bit of information specific to Darienite.com).
Some of the information below about what user data is collected was news to us. Whatever data on individual users may be available to us, we haven’t had any need or interest so far in getting it or even finding out how to get it. We do keep track of numbers of visitors to the website.
We reserve the right to find out the Web addresses of spammers or, perhaps, hackers, if they become a problem on the site. So far, the Web security services we use have identified hacking attempts (which are routine for any website and almost certainly automated). Disqus, our comments platform, has identified spam accounts, and we routinely block them.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://darienite.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 (as many users regularly do for event listings), 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
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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). For instance, Darienite.com sometimes uses embedded content from YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Storify, and Disqus is used for comments. Broadstreet.com is used for Darienite.com advertising. 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
Who we share your data with; 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, 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 (but they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
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.
Additional information
How we protect your data; What data breach procedures we have in place
From Day 1 (as soon as the website was officially registered), Darienite.com has had hacking attempts from all over the world, presumably through automated processes. The hacking attempts to get passwords of administration. No hacking attempt has ever been successful. We use a Web security service and good passwords.
What third parties we receive data from
We get data from Google Analytics and Broadstreet.com. All the information we look at from those sources is about total number of site visits. If information on site visits by individuals is collected, we don’t use it and never have.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Darienite.com doesn’t.