This Privacy Policy explains how Freethoughtable collects, uses, and protects information from visitors to this site. It outlines what data may be gathered through forms, cookies, and analytics tools, and how that information is handled. By using this website, you agree to the practices described below.
Your privacy is important at Freethoughtable.com.
Your privacy is critically important to me. At Freethoughtable.com, I try to uphold a few fundamental principles:
- I will ask for only the info I actually need—no nosy questions about your childhood pet’s middle name, promise.
- I will retain your personal information only as long as it serves a purpose. Once it doesn’t, poof—it’s gone.
- I will try to make it super easy for you to decide what you want to share with the world, what you’d rather keep under wraps, and what should vanish into the digital void forever.
- If anyone (even a very serious-sounding government agency) comes knocking for your data, I’ll have your back and push back when they overstep.
- I’m a big fan of honesty—so I’ll always be upfront about how and why I collect, use, and share your information. No fine-print trickery here.
Who is Freethoughtable.com?
Below is the Freethoughtable.com Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.
Freethoughtable.com is a personal blog and is hosted by WordPress at the freethoughtable.com website address. All content presented on this website represents only the views of the owner and does not represent the views of any other person or professional entity.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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. After your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible to the public alongside your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on this website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on this site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you don’t have to re-enter your details when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit the freethoughtable.com login page, Freethoughtable 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, Freethoughable will also set several cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. 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.
Suppose you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and 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 as if the visitor had visited those websites.
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.
Do you share my data with anyone?
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long do you retain my data?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that Freethoughtable can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on this 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 for their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do I have over my data?
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an export 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 is my data sent?
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Freethoughtable
If you have any questions about this or anything else related to something I’ve written, drop me a line via the Contact Page.