Who we are
Our website address is: http://madwithreason.com/.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Like most website operators, Mad With Reason collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Mad With Reason’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Mad With Reason’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Mad With Reason may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Mad With Reason also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments on our site. Mad With Reason only discloses commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that site commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the site.
Certain visitors to Mad With Reason’s website choose to interact with Mad With Reason in ways that require Mad With Reason to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Mad With Reason gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our site to provide a username and email address. If you send a contact form, you will be asked to provide a name and address. In each case, Mad With Reason collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Mad With Reason. Mad With Reason does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
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.
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.
Contact forms
Mad With Reason uses WPForms. View their privacy policy at: https://wpforms.com/privacy-policy/.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Ads
Ads appearing this site may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Mad With Reason and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Analytics
Mad With Reason may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its site. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described in this privacy policy. We use Google Analytics. The link to their privacy policy is: https://policies.google.com/privacy. For information about how to opt-out of Google Analytics, follow this link: Opt-out.
How long 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 profile. Website administrators can also see your 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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. This site is backed up regularly through a cloud-based backup system.
How we protect your data
Mad With Reason discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available our website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using our website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. We will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to our employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, will we disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Mad With Reason, third parties or the public at large.
Mad With Reason takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information. However, visitors should understand that any online transactions can never be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.