Privacy Policy statement (GDPR)

Who we are

 

Our website address is: https://www.the-jarl.com, and the statement presented below applies to this website.

What personal information do we collect and store

Comments

When visitors post comments on the page, the information provided in the comment form is stored in addition to the IP address of the visitor and the visitor’s browser version. This is done to help avoid junk comments.

An anonymous text string generated based on your email address (also called a “hash”) can be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you have an account there. Gravatar’s privacy statement is here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be visible to anyone in connection with your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the site, you should avoid uploading images that contain information about the place it was taken (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site might download and retrieve such information from images on the site.

Contact forms

Information sendt to us via our contact forms are not stored one this site, but on our email-server. Only information regarding music; albums, reviews, interviews and so on is posted on our the site.

Cookies

If you post a comment on this site, you can ask the site to remember your name, email and website. This information is stored in a cookie and is there to make things easier for you. You do not need to re-enter this information the next time you post a comment. These cookies expire after one year.

If you visit our login page, we will create a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal information and disappears as soon as you close your browser.

When you log in, cookies are created that store your login information and choices you have made regarding how content should be displayed. Cookies with login information expire after two days, while those with display options last for one year. If you check ‘Remember me’, your login information will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, these cookies will disappear

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal information, but only the ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this page may include embedded content (eg videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the site from which the embedded content comes.

These sites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking systems and monitor what you do through this embedded content. This also includes tracking your actions via the built-in content if you have an account and are logged in to the site.

With whom do we share this information

We do not share any personal information with anyone. If we post any personal information on the site, like email, this is agreed upon beforehand.

How long we keep stored information

If you leave a comment, the comment and information about the comment will be stored indefinitely. This is so that we can recognize follow-up comments and approve them automatically instead of putting them in a queue where they have to be manually approved by an editor.

For users who register on this website, personal information that they provide in their user profile is also stored. All users can view, edit and delete their own personal information at any time (except username). The site administrators can also view and edit this information.

Your rights regarding information we have about you

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an export file containing the personal information we hold about you. This includes all data you have given us. You can also request that we delete all personal information we have about you. This does not include information we are required to store for administrative, legal or security reasons. Please allow time to gather such information.