Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: http://thegeekanswers.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

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 use https://www.thegeekanswers.com/questions/ portion of this site and leave a question or make a login, we will set browser 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 Question or the Answer to another users questions cookies may be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the the information  you posted and expires after a day or depending on your browser settings.

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

We use Google’s Analytics service to track the number of pages and which pages are visited the most on this site.

Affiliate Links

Some links to products or services on this site are affiliated. This means we may receive a commission if you use the product or service recommended. Please see that product or services privacy policy. This is does not accept payments to endorse products or services other than affiliate commissions. All recommendations are for services we have used, use for clients sites we manage now or in the past or have carefully researched and genuinely recommend.

Who we share your data with

We do not share data collected by our website or services with anyone other than those external services or analytics as described above.

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.

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, or 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. Please use our contact page to request deletion of an account or comment data.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through the Akismet automated spam detection service operated by the creators of WordPress.

Your contact information

You can reach the owner/operator of this site by filling out the form on our contact page.

Last updated: January 22, 2019