Who we are
Our website address is: https://datamap-scotland.co.uk.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Providing visitors with anonymous access
You can access our website home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data. We do not use cookies for normal use and only use them when you post a comment (see below).
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Spamming WordPress sites by nefarious organisations is a common problem and anti-spam detection provides a way of keeping these of of the site.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (i.e. EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
We do not use cookies for normal browsing on this site.
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 site 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.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (at the moment we do not allow user logons), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we may send your data
Where is the data collected by your plugins stored?
We do not store any data fetched by our plugins on our servers, neither we share that data with any third party. Our plugins run absolutely on your website and store the data in the database of your website.
SPAM DETECTION
If you post comments on this site your comments may be checked through the Akismet Anti-Spam spam detection service. You can review Askimet’s privacy policy here:
https://akismet.com/privacy/
GRAVATAR SERVICE
If you post comments on this site 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. After approval of your comment, your gravatar profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here:
https://automattic.com/privacy/.