Who we are
Our website address is: https://desertislandgamer.com.
Comments
We collect data as shown upon and within the comments form, including a visitor’s IP address & browser user agent string, to help detect spam.
We may provide the Gravatar service an anonymized string created from your email address (AKA a hash) to see if you are using it.
Gravatar service privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After we approve your comment, we show your profile picture to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Before you upload image files here, remove the embedded locational data (EXIF GPS); site visitors can download said images and extract any locational data therein.
Data Trackers (Cookies)
Whenever you leave comments on this site, you may opt into saving ID & contact information in a data tracker (cookie). This lets you bypass repeated information queries for further comments.
This tracker lasts one year.
If you visit our login page, we set a temporary tracker to verify if your net browser accepts trackers. It contains no personal data.
This tracker is discarded after closing the browser.
We set several trackers to save log-in status & display preferences.
The Log-In Tracker lasts two days.
Display Preference Trackers last one year.
Selecting “Remember Me” has your log-in persist for two weeks.
Logging out of your Account also removes related Log-In Trackers.
Editing/Publishing Articles adds a Tracker, which includes no personal data, to your browser. The tracker indicates the post ID of the article you had just edited.
It expires after one day.
Embedded (other sites’) Content
Our site features embedded content from satellite sites, which behave exactly as they did on said parent sites.
Said sites often set trackers and collect data via monitoring, which may involve third parties. It applies to interactions with embedded content, particularly if you log into your account at participating sites.
Data Sharing
We include your IP address in the e-mail regarding a password reset.
Data Retention
We indefinitely retain your comments & their metadata. This lets us automatically recognize & approve of follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
We store any personal information provided inside a registered user’s profile. Said users can see, edit, or delete their personal information (except their username) at any time. The site’s administrators can also see & edit that information.
Rights to Your Data
Those with an account or who have submitted comments to this site may request to receive an exported file of all pertinent data therein. You can also request erasure of personal data we hold about you, excluding whatever are legally or administratively obliged to preserve.
Who Else Views Your Data
We may inspect visitor comments with automated spam detectors.