Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.orksandcats.com. This is my rough hot take at a Privacy Policy. Basically, we’re not going to collect anything beyond what’s required to serve you webpages, we’re not going to keep it beyond some basic data so I know how many people visit, and we’re not monetizing it or sharing it.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We’re just two yokels with a website, a dog, and some cats. We don’t intentionally collect anything except routine information needed for you to view this website (such as the fact that you requested to view this page, and that our server sent it to you.)

We will never sell or monetize your data. We don’t get enough views for advertisements anyway! If we ever decide we are going to add advertising or begin monetization, we will update this page and make a prominent sticky post about it for no less than 30 days before implementing those changes to give you a chance to decide if you want to proceed with us or not.

But let’s be honest- we’re never going to be popular enough to monetize, and we just like sharing cat pictures.

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.

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 will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will 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 will 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 will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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

Who we share your data with

We don’t share your data with anyone else outside of explicit ways outlined in this policy (for example, hashing your email address to see if you have a Gravatar.)

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

That’s it for the Orks and Cats Privacy Policy.

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