This policy was last updated: October 31st, 2023
This policy was created in accordance with federal regulations to explain what information is collected from you. We are committed to respecting the personal information of visitors to our site. This website is directed at adults and does not target individuals under the age of 13 years.
Legal Ownership
Mushroomunity (the “website”) is owned and operated by Matthew Baird, under the laws of Canada, in Ontario, Canada.
Purpose of Data Collection
When you visit Mushroomunity, data is collected to improve user experience, ensure security, and provide statistics. We collect information related to your device, such as your IP address, what pages you visit on our website, whether you were referred by another website, and the time you visited the site. We do not collect any other personal data without your consent.
When accessing Mushroomunity through another site, such as social media, please refer to their privacy policy for more information regarding their data collection. Third parties vendors, including Google, may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browsers, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on Mushroomunity. For more information, see: https://policies.google.com/privacy
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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should 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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
You can disable cookies through your individual browser settings.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, links to 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.
How long we retain your data
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.
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 does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
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