Privacy Policy

Who we are

This is the privacy policy for the website: http://gothydreams.space.

This is a personal website, run by an individual, not a corporation. I’m not interested in gathering your personal data, except what is necessary for things like enabling you to comment on my posts and preventing abuse, such as spam.

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.

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.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages and posts 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.

If you wish to limit this type of external, third-party tracking, I would recommend the use of privacy preserving tools such as cookies and tracker blocking browser extensions, such as Ghostery or Privacy Badger, to limit the amount of tracking and data available. Browser extensions listed are just an example, please conduct your own research and use your own discretion when installing any browser extensions.

Who we share your data with

I do not sell your data, and the only data shared with third parties is where noted in this privacy policy.

This website is hosted using Hostinger, with servers hosted in Germany (EU),while they may process a minimal amount of personal data for logging purposes, their privacy policy can be found at: https://www.hostinger.com/legal/privacy-policy

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.

What rights you have over your data

If you have have left comments, 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. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to prevent website abuse.