We use technology such as cookies on our site to personalise content and ads, provide social media features, and analyse our traffic.
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/
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.
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.
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.
Cookies are used on this site to store information for analytics (seeing how many people visit the site, what pages they read, etc), social interaction (buttons to share on Facebook, etc), advertisements, and any additional features used on an individual articles (e.g., feedback forms).
Amongst the services that either do or may uses cookies on this site are:
- Google Analytics for analytics
- Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube for social interaction
- Advertisements
- YouTube, Vimeo, Vine and Instagram embeds
- MailChimp for mailing list
Some advertisers may use technology such as cookies when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. These cookies are generally used for geo-targeting purposes or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited.
You can opt out of personalised advertising from Google by visiting Ads Settings and aboutads.info.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings.