Because Politicians are dumb
This website address is: https://blog.frankmtaylor.com. I hope you know where you are. This is a privacy policy that I’m putting here because WordPress says I should.
Honestly, I don’t want to do this.
What personal data I may collect and why I may collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site I 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/privacy/. After I approve your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
When you do a thing on the internet, the internet knows.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.
How you upload images is beyond me. No one should be doing that here.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on my site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies.
Cookies are not for eating. Cookies are this super lame way of saving user information in the browser.
WordPress will have you believe 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.
Delete your cookies right now if you want. I don’t care.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. YouTube 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.
I try to be super careful about what content I embed, because I want to protect your privacy. So I’m sorry if those buttholes track you.
Who I share your data with
Nobody. Absolutely nobody.
How long I retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely, or until an electromagnetic pulse takes out all of the United States. Or a Zombie Apocalypse. Or somebody trips over a wire in the server room. Whichever comes first.
I keep comment data so I can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on my blog (if any), I 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).
I can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data I have for you, including any data you have provided to me.
You can also request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. I will happily do so — unless you said something egregiously stupid that requires me to report you to the authorities.
Where I send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. That’s it.
I ain’t sending your data anywhere else.
My contact information
Right here on the blog.
Some Additional information
How I protect your data
I have guns. If somebody comes lookin’ at your data all weird-like, imma go John Wick on their ass.
But seriously, I change my blog password regularly. I take the latest updates. I’m careful what plugins I use and I’m careful about any “sharing” features that may be tracking you. Take note that I don’t put any social media sharing options anywhere on the blog. That’s so them rascals can’t track you.
What data breach procedures I have in place
I will first panic, and then use Duck Duck Go to search, “I think my data was breached”
What third parties I receive data from
None. I don’t get invited to parties.