Privacy Policy
Last updated: 05/11/2024
Welcome to the Adventurer’s Diary (http://adventurersdiary.com.). Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use and protect it, and your rights regarding your personal information. By using our website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
When you sign up for our newsletter, we collect your email address. We use this email address to send you our newsletter and occasional updates related to Adventurer’s Diary.
We use cookies to enhance your experience on our site. Cookies are small files stored on your device that help us understand how you interact with our website. We may use cookies to collect information about your browsing behaviour on Adventurer’s Diary, such as the pages you visit, the links you click on, and other actions you take on the site.
How We Use Your Information
We use your email address to send you our newsletter, promotional content, and updates about Adventurer’s Diary. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time by following the unsubscribe link in the email.
We use cookies and usage data to improve the functionality and performance of our website, analyse trends, and understand how users engage with our content.
Adventurer’s Diary may display ads and include affiliate links. These third parties may use cookies and similar technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services and targeted ads.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect 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.
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 visit our login page, 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register to our email newsletter, we also store the personal information provided. All users can unsubscribe to our email list at any time, and their information will be deleted.
What rights you have over your data
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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.