Who are we
Our website address is: https://www.birdwitness.com.
Comment
When visitors leave comments, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser’s User-Agent string, to help check for spam.
An anonymized string (also known as a hash) generated from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify your use of the service. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly displayed next to it.
Media
If you upload images to this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded geolocation information (EXIF GPS). Visitors to this website will be able to download and extract the location information from the images.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose to use cookies to save your name, email address, and website address. This is to provide you with convenience so you don’t have to fill in these details again when commenting. These cookies will be retained for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to confirm whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we also set several cookies to save your login information and screen display options. Login cookies will be retained for two days, while screen display options cookies will be retained for one year. If you select “Remember me,” your login status will be retained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, we will save an additional cookie in your browser. This cookie does not contain personal data but only records the ID of the article you just edited. This cookie will be retained for one day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may contain embedded content (such as videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves no differently than when you directly visit those other sites.
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking programs, and monitor your interactions with this embedded content, including tracking your interactions with the embedded content if you have an account on those sites and are logged in.
With whom do we share your information
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the password reset email.
How long do we retain your information
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will be stored indefinitely. We do this so we can identify and automatically approve any follow-up comments instead of adding them to a review queue.
For registered users of this website, we also store the personal information they provide in their profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for changing their usernames), and site administrators can also view and edit that information.
What rights do you have to your information
If you have an account on this site, or have ever left a comment, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including all data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase all personal data about you. This does not include data that we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
Where will your data be sent
Visitor comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service.