Privacy Policy

Who we are

My online persona is BenevolentBowd and I am a casual gaming blogger from Vancouver, Canada.  My website address is: https://benevolentbowd.ca.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

The commenting feature has been disabled on this site, prior before the GDPR and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) regulations came into effect,  to eliminate the need to moderate posts to eliminate comment spam the risk of malicious code injection.

However, when visitors left comments on the site we collected 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.

Contact forms

The feedback feature has been disabled on this site to eliminate the need to moderate submission to eliminate comment spam and the risk of malicious code injection.

However, when visitors left comments on the site we collected the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection

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

Advertising and Analytics

We use Google Adsense and Google Analytics.

Within the Adsense settings personalization and third party network options are disabled. You may see ads that are less relevant to you. These ads use cookies, but not for personalization.

Adsense provides web analytics data about how our Site is used.

For more information about Google analytics cookies, please see Google’s help pages and privacy policy. To opt-out of Google Analytics, you can download and install the Google Analytics opt-out Browser add-on.

Calendar

We use Google Calendar to record and present event information. For more information about Google Calendar cookies, please see Google’s help pages and privacy policy.

Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself)

Mobile Theme

Data Used: A visitor’s preference on viewing the mobile version of a site.

Activity Tracked: A cookie (akm_mobile) is stored for 3.5 days to remember whether or not a visitor of the site wishes to view its mobile version. Learn more about this cookie.

Protect

Data Used: In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.

Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie (jpp_math_pass) for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human. Learn more about this cookie.

Data Synced (?): Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.

Who we share your data with

We only share data that is required by Canadian Law that is requested in the format prescribed by that law.

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.

Your contact information

Privacy related inquiries  can be sent to privacy@benevolentbowd.ca

Additional information

How we protect your data

To protect your data, this site uses two-factor authentication logon and a GDPR Compliant web application firewall.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Given the limited amount of personal information stored on our web server, users with accounts in this site are notified and prompted to change their passwords.

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