Who we are
Our website address is: http://brianrytel.com/.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
This site is primarily a personal blog and portfolio site. We discourage the disclosure of personal data.
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/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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
Any contact forms may include personally identifiable information as provided by you. Email communications may include personal information as provided by your email clients/services.
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. These cookies will last for one year.
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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
Analytics
The site may use, intentionally or coincidentally, analytics services. This includes basic site usage data and specialized data services.
Who we share your data with / Where we send your data /
How long we retain your data
Content may be handled by third party email, spam prevention, or review services. Information may be retained indefinitely by any of these services. Currently, the site is not actively seeking analytics or advertising partners. Data is held for the site owner(s), hosting partners, and any contracted agency into which the site or site owner(s) enter a relationship with.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are typically retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. If you have left comments but have no other form of account we will require explicit proof that you are the provider of the data and that such data is reasonably considered personal data. We will not send/share but may delete data when there is doubt about the origin of the request for data. No timeline is guaranteed in handling such requests. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, security purposes, which has become unavailable to us, or has already been shared with third parties.
Changes to this Policy
Changes may be made to this policy, related policies or agreements, procedures, site features, and any other document or arrangement related to interaction and operation of the at any time without prior or further notice.
Choice of Venue
The site owner(s)/operator(s) will retain choice of venue should any disagreement arise.