Who we are

You are on our website, which address is: https://www.magneticfields.nl.

Comments

You don’t have to worry about this, but 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. Luckily we don’t allow comments on our 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. 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.

Media

If you try to upload images to our website, we will be very pissed with your attempt and will seek further actions against you. Beside that you should certainly avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. It’s what we would do, also use to our advantage.

Cookies

Like said before, we don’t allow comment on our site. But If you feel the obligation to 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, although we would like to see you try again. If you do, know the cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, which we don’t recommend, 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. Or not, it’s up to us to determine on that moment.

When you log in, you have been granted administrator rights and we are forced (and will) also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last 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, because we don’t give these rights easily.

If you edit or publish an article, it better be good and 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 expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.), but is not something we encourage. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website, until it’s removed because it annoys the hell out of us.

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. And this is the annoying part. Nobody wants that, we certainly don’t, so f*ck off with your embedded crap.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. On the other hand this isn’t something to be worried about. Even if you could request a password reset, there is no way in hell we will sent you one and your email is still included on the road there.

How long we retain your data

Again, we don’t allow comments on our site but 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. We will also use this data to hunt you down and take action against you. We don’t like comments on our site and because you didn’t respect this we are forced to take action.

For users that register on our website (if you can, we don’t dare you), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. This will help us in the taking of actions against you and the pending hunt. 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, because we use this in our future actions against anyone registering on our site without our strict clearance.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site (which you don’t), or have left comments (which you can’t), 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. Just don’t except we will honor your request in any way. If you have breached our site by having an (unauthorized) account or in some way managed to leave a comment we give you the middle finger to any other request you make.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments will be checked through an automated spam detection service and further actions will be taken against you.