Who we are
Our website address is: https://toxic-web.co.uk.
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.
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.
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Newsletter
We send out an email newsletter when the site is updated. For this of course we need your email address and need to keep it, if you chose to subscribe. The newsletter is now kept in house so your email is not shared with any third party and each email includes an unsubscribe link which will remove your email address from the database should you wish to do so.
Contact Form
This site has a contact form, with which you can contact us. Using this requires you to enter your name and email address, which are obviously needed to get back in contact with the sender.
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. See our Cookie Policy page for more details.
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.
Who we share your data with
No one, other than who is included in this privacy policy.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you 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 your data is sent
Visitor comments and messages sent through the contact form may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We collect information about visitors who comment on toxic-web.co.uk that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself). The Akismet privacy policy is here: https://akismet.com/privacy/
External Links
Toxic Web contains links to other sites. Toxic Web is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.