Who am I?
My website address is https://ambikabhandari.com. I am an individual owning this website.
What personal data the website collects and why it collects?
Comments
When a visitor leaves a comment on any page of the website, it will collect the data shown in the comment form which includes name, email address, and more. The website will also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to check for spam.
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
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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this website 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.
Analytics
With whom the website shares your data
How long the website retain your data
When you leave a comment, the comment content and its metadata are retained indefinitely. The website does that to recognize you in the future for automatic approval. The website does this to prevent spam commenting.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data the website holds about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request the website to erase any personal data the website hold about you. This does not include any data that the website is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where the website sends your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.