Who we are
Our website address is: https://alwaysphotographing.com.
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 attaches profile information that you provide and associate with an email address in order to allow you to manage your profile from a single place and use it across the web. This site does not require you to use this service. 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 or any other image metadata that you would prefer to keep private (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website would be able to download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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.
This site does not support user logins at this time. Therefore, we do not store persistent personal data that would be required to support user accounts.
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.
Who we share your data with
Your IP address may be shared with services that support the operation of this website. No features of this site use your IP address.
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.
What rights you have over your data
The only data that we retain is the information that you have provided is you comment on the site. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.