Our Identity
Our website address: https://ArsSilentium.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the shown data in the comments form. And also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (called a hash) may accompany your data when provided to the Gravatar service to see if you use it.
You can find the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture appears 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 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 serve for your convenience, to 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 discards when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last 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 disappear.
When you edit or publish an article, your browser saves an additional cookie. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one 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 same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect your data, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content. These include tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and have logged in to the website.
Who We Share Your Data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address gets included in the reset email.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata remain stored indefinitely. It allows us to automatically recognise and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store 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). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
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 we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
You can also request the deletion of any personal data we hold about you. It does not include any data we must retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Destination of Your Data
Visitor comments may undergo assessment through an automated spam detection service.
Microsoft Clarity
We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioural metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services.
Website usage data gets captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity.
Additionally, we use this information for site optimisation, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.