Welcome to Koboguide! We take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect from visitors to our website (), how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it to others.
Information We Collect:
- Comments: When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
- Gravatar: An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. You can find the Gravatar service privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
- Media: We recommend you avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) when uploading images to our website. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies:
- Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience and avoid refilling your information for future comments. These cookies expire after one year.
- Login: We use temporary cookies to determine if your browser accepts cookies and several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices when you log in. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. Choosing “Remember Me” extends your login persistence for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
- Editing/Publishing: An additional cookie is saved in your browser when you edit or publish an article. This cookie expires after 1 day and only indicates the post ID of the article you edited.
Embedded Content:
Articles on this site may include embedded content from other websites (e.g., videos, images, articles). This content behaves the same way as if you visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who We Share Your Data With:
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Data Retention:
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely for spam detection and automatic approval of follow-up comments.
- Registered Users: For registered users, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. Users can access, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights 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 the erasure of any personal data we hold about you, except for data required for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Spam Detection:
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes to this Privacy Policy:
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.