Privacy Policy

What is this site?

This website address is: http://www.ratzart.com. This is a site dedicated to promoting artistic passions. This site is not affiliated with any company, non-profit organization, etc.

DO NOT USE THIS SITE IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THIS PAGE!

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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 may download and extract location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

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. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist after closing your browser. 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.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This is a WordPress site hosted on a commercial, shared-tenant web hosting services and use of this site consents to collection of analytics data that may or may not occur by the site, WordPress, the hosting service provider, etc.

Who we share your data with

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 have the account removed. Any comments are similar content uploaded by you may still reflect content poster information. Data required for administrative, legal, or security purposes may persist, even after an account is deleted.

Where we send your data

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

Your contact information

You can reach the site administrator via the site’s contact page.

Additional information

How we protect your data

This site is not intended to be or claims to be a secure site, nor does this site claim to or provide protections for confidential or otherwise sensitive information. Any use of this site is at your own risk.