Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Digging Deep Histories collects, uses, and protects information when you visit this website. Our website address is https://diggingdeephistories.com.

Contact form

If you use the Contact Digging Deep Histories form, we collect the name, email address, enquiry type, and message you provide. This information is used only to respond to your enquiry and is not sold or shared with third parties for marketing purposes.

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 anonymised 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 at 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 last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we 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 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 persists for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies are removed.

For full details of cookies used across the site, including analytics and embedded YouTube content, see the Cookie Policy.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles and pages on this site may include embedded content, such as YouTube videos. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had 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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address is included in the reset email. We do not sell visitor data to third parties.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Messages sent through the contact form are retained for as long as needed to respond to and resolve the enquiry. 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, have left comments, or have contacted us through the contact form, 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. Contact form submissions are protected by a spam prevention check before being delivered by email.

Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy, use the Contact Digging Deep Histories page.