If you choose to read content and interact with our blog (commenting, contacting us, etc), then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving our blog’s user experience. We respect your privacy and we will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://codinggear.org.

You can read more about us on our About Us page.

What Personal Data Do We Collect From You?

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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

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 a year.

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.

Contact Forms.

When you use our contact form to get in touch with us (CodingGear.blog), we collect your name, email address, and the comment or message itself. This information enables us to get to know you and follow up on your contact request. However, the information is kept to ourselves and never shared with anyone.

We do not sell, trade, or rent personal identification information about our users to third parties.

Analytics.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a website traffic tracking and reporting service provided by Google. Google uses the information gathered to track and monitor how our Service is used. Other Google services have access to this information. Google may utilize the information gathered to contextualize and personalize its own advertising network’s adverts. By installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, you can opt-out of having your activity on the Service tracked by Google Analytics. The add-on stops Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing data about visit activities with Google Analytics. Please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page for more information on Google’s privacy practices.

What We Use Your Information For?

Take care of any questions you may have concerning or in relation to this website.
Preventing fraud and securing this website.
Getting in touch with you via contact or other forms of communication (mentioned in this post).
To make it easier for you to find information on this site.
To assist us in creating and delivering the most relevant information to you.
To improve the site’s user experience.

How Long Do 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 profiles. 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 Do 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.

More Privacy Information.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We utilize the WordPress comments system.

Children’s Privacy.

Children under the age of 13 are not addressed by our Blog.

We do not intentionally collect personally identifying information from children under the age of 13. Please contact us if you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your children have provided us with Personal Data. If we learn that we have obtained Personal Data from children without a parental agreement, we will take steps to erase the data from our servers.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy.

If we make any modifications to our privacy policy, we’ll announce them on this page and alter the date below to reflect that.

Last Update: 5 May 2022.