Privacy Policy of A Pixel of Hope
Last Updated: 12/01/23
1. Introduction Welcome to A Pixel of Hope. Our website address is: https://apixelofhope.com. This Privacy Policy provides detailed information on how we collect, use, and protect your personal data.
2. Collection of Personal Information
- Comments: When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
- Media: If you upload images to the website, please avoid including location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
3. Use of Cookies
- General: We use cookies to enhance your experience, remember your preferences, and for analytics.
- Comments: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies, which last for one year.
- Login Information: Temporary cookies determine if your browser accepts cookies. These contain no personal data and are discarded when you close your browser. Login cookies and screen options cookies last for two days and one year, respectively.
- Editing or Publishing: If you edit or publish an article, a cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie, which expires after one day, includes no personal data, only the post ID of the article you edited.
4. Embedded Content Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). This content behaves as if you have visited the other website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
5. Sharing Your Data Your data may be shared in specific instances, such as including your IP address in a password reset email.
6. Data Retention
- Comments: We retain comments and their metadata indefinitely for recognition and approval of follow-up comments.
- Registered Users: For users who register on our site, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can edit or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Administrators can also see and edit this information.
7. Your Data Rights If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of your personal data we hold, including any data you have provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, which does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
8. Data Transfer Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.