Who we are

The address of our website is: https://regioconnect.org.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data entered in the comment form, the visitor’s IP address and the user agent string (for browser identification) to support spam detection.

An anonymized string (hash) of your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. You can find Gravatar’s privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of the comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and upload images to our website, please avoid images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors could extract this location data when they download the images.

Cookies

Comments: When you post a comment, your name, email and website may be stored in cookies to provide convenience for future comments. These cookies are stored for one year.

Registration: When you log in, we set temporary cookies to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. After successful login, cookies are set to save login data and display options. Login cookies expire after two days, display option cookies after one year. With the “Stay logged in” option, the login is maintained for two weeks. These cookies are deleted when you log out.

Editing: When editing or publishing an article, a cookie is stored that expires after one day and does not contain any personal data.

Embedded content

Articles on this website may embed content from third-party providers (e.g. videos, images, articles). Embedded content behaves in the same way as if you had visited the third-party website. These websites may collect data, use cookies, use additional tracking services and record your interaction, especially if you have an account there and are logged in.

Who we share your data with

In the event of a password reset, your IP address will be listed in the corresponding email.

How long we store your data

Comments and their metadata are stored indefinitely in order to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments. For registered users, we store the personal information provided in the user profile. This data can be viewed, changed or deleted by the users themselves or by administrators.

Your rights to your data

You can request an export of your personal data, including all data that you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of all personal data we hold about you, except where we are required to keep it for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Where your data is sent

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