Privacy Policy

Who are we?

The address of our website is: https://www.skwal-riders.org. It is managed by the Skwal Riders Association.

Comments

When you leave a comment on our site, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and the user agent of your browser, are collected to help with the detection of spam comments.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, we recommend avoiding uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from these images.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may be offered the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you don’t have to fill in this information again when you leave another comment. These cookies will expire after one year.

If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be set 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 will set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, while a screen option cookie lasts for one year. If you select “Remember me,” your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data; it simply stores the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). 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 the embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Use and transmission of your personal data

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data retention periods

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and automatically approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if applicable), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.

Your rights over your data

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. 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.