Welcome to epoque.info. We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and retain your information, and your rights.
1. Who We Are
Our website: epoque.info
We operate this site to publish content, allow user comments, and engage with our visitors in a responsible way while respecting your privacy.
2. Comments & User‑Interactions
- When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information provided in the comments form (e.g. name, email, website) along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. These help us detect and prevent spam.
- We may send an anonymized string (also known as a hash) derived from your email address to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
- After your comment is approved, your profile picture (if using Gravatar) will be visible publicly in the context of the comment.
3. Media
- If you upload images to the site, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS).
- Visitors to the site may download images and extract location data if present.
4. Cookies
- If you leave a comment, you may opt to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
- When you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to see if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not include personal data and is discarded when you close the browser.
- After you log in, we also set additional cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, screen options cookies for one year. If you choose “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out of your account removes the login cookies.
- If you edit or publish an article, a further cookie will be saved in your browser. This contains no personal data; it simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
- Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.).
- Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited the other website. These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third‑party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
6. Who We Share Your Data With
- If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
- We may share data with service providers necessary for our operation (for example hosting, spam detection, analytics). These providers are contractually required to maintain confidentiality and use the data only for the purposes specified by us.
7. 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 rather than holding them in moderation.
- For registered users, we store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. Users can edit or delete their personal information at any time (except the username, which cannot be changed).
8. Your Rights Over Your Data
- If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you may request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
- You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
9. Where Your Data Is Sent
- Comment data may be sent through an automated spam detection service.
- Your data may also be transferred to servers of third‑party services we use (hosting, analytics, content delivery networks, etc.), in accordance with their privacy policies and applicable laws.
10. Data Security
- We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
- But please note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.