Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

Who we are?

Our website address: https://tankx.ca.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments:

If a visitor leaves a comment on the site, we collect the data indicated in the comment form, as well as the visitor's IP address and browser user-agent data for the purpose of spam detection.

An anonymized string generated from your email address ("hash") may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. Gravatar's privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/  Once a comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

media files

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 saving your name, email address and website in a cookie. This is done for your convenience, so as not to fill in the data again when re-commenting. These cookies are stored for one year.
If you have an account on the site and you log in, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser supports cookies, cookies do not contain any personal information and are deleted when you close your browser.
When you sign in to your account, we also set several cookies with login details and screen settings. Login cookies are stored for two days, screen settings cookies are stored for a year. If you choose the "Remember me" option, your login information will be stored for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies will be deleted.
When editing or publishing an article in the browser, an additional cookie will be stored, it does not contain personal data and contains only the ID of the post you edited, expires 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
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

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). 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 does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

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

Your contact information
Additional information
How we protect your data
What data breach procedures we have in place
What third parties we receive data from
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements.