Privacy Policy

Who are we?

Our website address is: https://lesafriques.com.

Use of collected personal data

Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent, are collected to help us detect spam comments.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and you upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF GPS coordinate data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is solely for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.

If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be automatically deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up a number of cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a login cookie is two days, and that of a screen options cookie is one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you just 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 had visited that other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and track your interactions with that embedded content if you have an account logged in on their website.

Statistics and audience measurement

Use and sharing of your personal data

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and automatically approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (where possible), we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators can also view and edit that 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 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.