Privacy Policy for Defensive End! BLITZ
At Defensive End! BLITZ, we are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information with care and transparency. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your data when you visit our website. We aim to make this information easy to understand for everyone, including families and individuals with sensitivities.
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://defensiveendblitz.com
Information We Collect and Why
When You Leave Comments
When you share your thoughts by leaving comments on our site, we collect the information you provide in the comment form (like your name and email address). We also note your computer’s IP address and browser details. This helps us identify and prevent spam, keeping our comment sections safe and relevant for everyone.
To display your profile picture next to your comment, we may send an anonymized version of your email address (called a hash) to the Gravatar service. This service helps confirm if you have a profile picture associated with that email.
You can review Gravatar’s privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile picture becomes visible to the public alongside your comment.
When You Upload Media (Images)
If you upload images to our website, please be aware that images can sometimes contain hidden location data (known as EXIF GPS data). To protect your privacy and the privacy of others, we strongly recommend that you remove any embedded location data from your images before uploading them. Visitors to our website can potentially download images and extract this location data.
How We Use Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device that help our website function smoothly and remember your preferences. We use cookies for the following purposes:
- For Your Comments: If you leave a comment, you have the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you don’t have to re-enter your details each time you comment. These cookies will remain on your device for one year.
- For Login (if applicable): When you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal information and is removed when you close your browser.
- Remembering Your Login: If you log in to our website, we set up cookies to save your login information and your screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for one year. If you choose “Remember Me,” your login will stay active for two weeks. Logging out of your account will remove these login cookies.
- For Editing Articles (if applicable): If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Our articles may include content (such as videos, images, or other articles) embedded from external websites. When you view or interact with this embedded content, it behaves exactly as if you had visited the other website directly.
These external websites may collect data about you, use their own cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with their content. This includes tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that specific external website. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party sites you interact with through embedded content.
How We Share Your Data
We value your privacy and only share your data when necessary for website functionality or legal obligations:
- Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your computer’s IP address will be included in the reset email to help ensure security.
- Automated Spam Detection: Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service to protect our website and community.
How Long We Keep Your Data
We retain your data for specific periods to ensure smooth website operation and provide a good user experience:
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment itself and its associated information (metadata) are kept indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments from you, rather than holding them for manual moderation.
- Registered Users: For users who register on our website (if this feature is enabled), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All registered users can view, edit, or delete their own personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Our website administrators can also see and edit this information for site management purposes.
Your Rights Over Your Data
You have important rights regarding your personal data:
- Access Your Data: If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any information you have provided to us.
- Erase Your Data: You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. Please note that this right does not apply to any data we are legally or administratively obliged to keep for purposes such as record-keeping, legal compliance, or security.