who I am

My website address is: http://brianchavez.com.

comments

When visitors leave comments on this site I collect no data except for the comments themselves, and I don’t even hold on to that for long because… well, why should I?

The 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.

cookies

If you leave a comment on my site you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will go stale and be trashed after one year.

If you log in, I 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.

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. None of this has anything to do with me.

who I share your data with

Joe Mama.

how long I retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognize and approve any followup comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on my website (if any), I ignore 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). I could also see and edit that information if I so desired but you already know that I don’t.

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 held about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that I erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that I may wish to keep for administrative, legal, or nefarious security purposes.

where I send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service before I chuck ’em.