Privacy Policy

PonderingPhilosopher.com takes privacy, and privacy policy, seriously – information will only be used in the course of running the site.

The site collects information including but not limited to cookies and IP address logs to maintain the function and performance of the site.

Any users under 18 (or of adult age in their respective area) that use the site should do so only with parental permission.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.PonderingPhilosopher.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 maybe be used to help spam detection.

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.

Contact forms

Information submitted via, and associated with contact forms may be collected

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.

Other services on this site (such as Google Analytics) also use cookies to collect information about user activity on the site. Other third party sites such as social media sites might also use cookies.

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.

One example is Google Fonts – many websites use these to load fonts onto the website.

Analytics

Google analytics (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en) is used on the website, as well as Word Fence for security and analytics, Discus for comments might be used (https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy), mailchimp for email related items might be used (https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/), hotjar for user analytics might be used (https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy), and others as they might be deemed of value to the website.

Who we share your data with

Data is generally only used by the website operator to deliver and maintain the website as needed.

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 (if any), 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 (except 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 you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. 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.

General

The headings in this policy are intended to be a convenience only and are not intended to affect interpretation.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

If you have questions about this or anything related to the website, contact the website at: hello@ponderingphilosopher.com