Privacy policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.homesecurityhq.net.

Comments

If the visitor leaves a comment on the site, we collect the data specified in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent data for the purpose of spam detection.

An anonymized string generated from your email address (“hash”) may be provided to Gravatar to determine whether you are using it. The Gravatar Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ . Once a comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Media files

If you are a registered user and uploading photos to the site, you should probably avoid uploading images with EXIF ​​metadata, as they may contain your GPS location data. Visitors can extract this information by downloading images from the site.

Cookies


If you leave a comment on our site, you can enable the saving of your name, email address and website in cookies. This is done for your convenience, so that the data will not be filled in again when commenting again. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account on the site and you enter it, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser supports cookies, the cookie does not contain any personal information and is deleted when you close your browser.

When logging in to the account, we also set several cookies with login data and screen settings. Login cookies are stored for two days, cookies with screen settings – 1 hour. If you select the “Remember me” option, the login data will be saved for two weeks. When you log out of the account, login cookies will be deleted.

When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be saved in the browser, it does not contain personal data and only contains the ID of the record edited by you, it expires after 1 day.

Embedded content of other websites


Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example, videos, images, articles, etc.), such content behaves in the same way as if the visitor visited another site.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, implement additional third-party tracking, and track your interactions with embedded content, including tracking interactions if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

With whom we share your data


If you request a password reset, your IP will be indicated in the reset email.

How long do we keep your data?


If you leave a comment, the comment itself and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This is done in order to detect and approve subsequent comments automatically, instead of placing them in a queue for approval.

For registered users on our site, we store the personal information that they provide in their profile. All users can see, edit or delete their information from the profile at any time (except for the user name). The website administration can also see and change this information.

What are your rights to your data?


If you have an account on the site or if you have left comments, you can request an export file of the personal data we have stored about you, including the data you have provided. You can also request the deletion of these data, this does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Where we send your data


User comments can be checked by an automatic spam detection service.