Privacy Policy

About Us

Welcome to LiteBlues.us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website.

Comments

When you leave comments on our site, we collect the information you provide in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string. This helps us detect and prevent spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to our website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS) in those images. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from the images.

Cookies

  • Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. This saves you from having to re-enter your details for future comments. These cookies will last for one year.
  • Login Cookies: When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
  • Session Cookies: After logging in, several cookies are set to remember your login details and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, while screen option cookies last for a year. If you choose “Remember Me,” your login will be persistent for two weeks. Logging out will remove these cookies.
  • Editorial Cookies: When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Our site may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves the same way as if you had visited those external sites directly.

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

Data Sharing

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

Data Retention

We retain comments and their metadata indefinitely to facilitate automatic recognition and approval of follow-up comments. This avoids holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. You can view, edit, or delete your personal information at any time, except for your username. Website administrators also have access to this information.

Your Rights Over Your Data

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

Data Transmission

Visitor comments may be screened through an automated spam detection service.