Privacy Policy for CaliPad.com
Effective Date: 2/8/2025
At CaliPad.com, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information when you visit our website.
1. Comments
When visitors leave comments on CaliPad.com, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture (if provided) will be visible in the context of your comment.
2. Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.
3. Cookies
- Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- Login: When visiting the login page, a temporary cookie is set to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- Logged-in Users: Upon login, we set cookies to save your login details and display preferences. Login cookies last two days, display preference cookies last for a year, and selecting “Remember Me” extends login persistence to two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
- Editing/Publishing: If you edit or publish a listing, an additional cookie is stored in your browser to indicate the post ID of the edited listing. It expires after one day.
4. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles and listings on CaliPad.com may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from external websites behaves as if you visited those websites directly.
These third-party websites may:
- Collect data about you,
- Use cookies,
- Embed additional third-party tracking, and
- Monitor your interaction with embedded content (including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that website).
5. Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
6. How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This helps us recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
- Registered Users: For users who register on CaliPad.com (if applicable), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
7. Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you may request:
- An exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided.
- That we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
8. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [Your Contact Email].