Effective Date: June 12, 2026
1. Information Collected
- Comments: When you leave a comment, WordPress and Jetpack collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
- Security & Performance: We use Cloudflare to protect and speed up this website. Cloudflare may process your IP address and web traffic data to block malicious activity.
2. Cookies & Analytics
- Jetpack Comments: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These last for one year and are purely for your convenience.
- Traffic Analytics: We use Jetpack and Clicky to monitor anonymous visitor traffic (e.g., pages viewed, country of origin). These services use cookies to track aggregate, non-personally identifiable visitor behavior.
3. Data Sharing & Retention
We do not sell or share your personal information with third parties.
Spam Prevention: Visitor comments are automatically checked through the Akismet spam detection service.
Retention: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.