Who we are

Our website’s address is https://pearloftheeast.blog.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the information displayed in the comments form as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection.

An anonymized string derived from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether or not you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy can be found at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment after it has been approved.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from the website’s images.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose whether or not to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you don’t have to fill out your information again when you leave another comment. These cookies will be good for a year.

When you visit our login page, we will place a temporary cookie to see if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personally identifiable information and is deleted when you close your browser.

We will also set up several cookies when you log in to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies are only valid for two days, while screen options cookies are valid for a year. If you choose “Remember Me,” your login will be saved for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted.

An additional cookie will be saved in your browser if you edit or publish an article. This cookie contains no personally identifiable information and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It has a one-day expiration date.

Embedded content from other websites

This website’s articles may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly like if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, the reset email will include your IP address.

How long we retain your data

When you leave a comment, both the comment and its metadata are saved indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments rather than holding them in a moderation queue.

We also store the personal information provided by users who register on our website (if any) in their user profile. All users have the ability to view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Administrators of the website can also view and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

You can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us, if you have an account on this site or have left comments. You can also ask us to delete any personal information we have on file for you. This excludes any data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Where we send your data

An automated spam detection service may be used to review visitor comments.