Privacy Policy
Who We Are
The following policy describes the ways in which we collect and use information about you when you use our website at https://anonymania.com.
We at Anonymania go by the phrase “your privacy matters” and in this policy, we clarify how carefully we tend to your privacy when dealing with your personal information.
This Privacy Policy is subject to change as a result of any new applicable regulations. Future updates are necessary for the enhancement of your website interaction and online experience. You are required to check for policy updates on a periodic basis.
Should you not accept the Policy, you are to no longer continue using our website. However, your time on site will be taken as an indicator of your consent.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect it
Anonymania may collect personal information when you are on the site. This includes the following:
- your computer
- your email address
- website visitations
- your IP address
- geographical location
- browser type and version
- operating system
- referral source
- time on site
- page views
- website navigation paths
Some personal information that we might have about you may be linked to the information obtained by cookies.
Comments
We collect the information that you post (in the form of comments) on our website for public access. This includes your username and what your posts include.
We collect the data from the comments that visitors leave in the section we have provided for their input. The data in the comment form reveals visitors’ IP addresses and the browser they are using in order to detect and prevent potential spamming.
The Gravatar service may collect an anonymized string – a hash – from your email address to check whether or not you are using it. You will find The Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies that necessitate users’ consent. Cookies are files that are stored on a user’s device. They carry user-specific data and the websites this user visits. This information can be accessed either by the web server or the user’s device.
Cookies are either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. Anonymania uses session cookies where that of users expire at the end of the session, particularly when the browser is closed.
When leaving a comment on our website you may want to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for future posts. This checkbox was designed for your convenience so that you do not have to repeatedly fill in your details whenever you want to add a comment. These cookies will last for one year.
We have a temporary cookie set that determines whether or not your browser accepts cookies on your login page. Login cookies last for two days. This cookie does not retain personal information and is discarded when the browser is closed. We also have several cookies set up to save your login information as well as your screen display choices. Screen options cookies last for a year.
If you select “Remember Me”, your login will be valid for two weeks. However, if you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Embedded Content from other websites
Some Anonymania articles may feature embedded content such as links, videos, images, etc.). If you choose to visit the source of the embedded content, you will receive that specific website’s treatment. We are not responsible for how the embedded content behaves with its regular visitors.
You must check the privacy policies and practices of each website you intend to visit. Contact the website’s owner or operator in case you have any concerns.
These websites may use cookies, gather information about you, collect your data, insert additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions.
Analytics
At Anonymania, we use a third-party service that is Google Analytics for the purposes of gathering basic information about visitors’ behavior patterns, not their identities. The information is processed only to show the number of visitors to the many parts of the website. We have no interest in revealing our visitors’ identities.
In the case we ever decided to collect personal information, we will notify you about the reasons behind its implementation and what we wish to do with it.
How Long Do we Retain your Data?
The comment you leave, along with its metadata are retained for an unspecified period of time. This is so we can follow up with and approve comments automatically instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.
What Rights Do you Have over your Data?
If you have left comments on our site, you can demand an exported file of the personal data we possess about you, that includes any data you have provided us with.
You can also request the erasure of whatever personal data we have about you with the exception of data we have to keep for security, administrative, or legal reasons and purposes.
Where We Send your Data
Visitors’ comments are periodically passed through the most powerful anti-spam service for the web, Akismet. The spam detector checks all of our website’s comments against malicious content to maintain our site’s credibility.
The service’s goal is to keep our information private and secure as well as protect the website from seemingly harmful spam comments.
Contacting Anonymania
Should you have any questions or inquiries about any part of this privacy policy, you may contact us at [email protected].