Who we are

Nobody at Blathermatica cares – websitewise – whence you came or whither you go.

Any identifying information you may have had to use to get here is used only by automatic processes without human oversight. This is to discourage spambottery. Blathermatica is not in the business of mopping up your hailing frequencies. If you’re reading this, and you’re apprehending it, then that’s ok by us. If you’re apprehending it and you’re also a robot, we’re awfully impressed and you’re very welcome to comment too – you’ll know how.

Which is not to say that others, including wordpress, are not in the business of building up lists of email addresses (we’re pretty sure they’re not, but we shan’t speak for them is all). These pages are just as prone to Web-crawlers, spiders, etc as anywhere else, so do please exercise your usual due caution with your personal information.

This is a non-commercial site. WordPress may use Cookies to track its visitors. Since you are free to rummage around without providing any information about yourself, this should not matter to you unless you register as a permanent subscriber. It is quite unable to record anything about you – including personal information you have provided to other websites – that you don’t explicitly offer here at lemoutan.com.

Comments

Visitors leaving comments on the site have their data (as presented in the comments form) collected, and also their IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.

An anonymised 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 at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

We’re incapable of automatically removing location data from any images you upload here. If you do upload images, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS), since other visitors may download your image and extract any location data from it.

Cookies

Upon commenting on our site you may record your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you need not fill in your details again if you leave another comment. These cookies will crumble after a year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies survive two days, and screen options cookies for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It disappears into the tea after 1 day.

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

Upon requesting a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, both it 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.

For users that register on our website (if any), 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 which should therefore be choosen wisely, not foolishly). 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 excludes any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.