We have currently disabled comments on blog posts as we felt they were not adding value to the site. In the past when visitors left a comment on the site we collected the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may also have been provided to the Gravatar service to see if you were using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here:
https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment was approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
We use a form plugin on our contact page. All data submitted through this form is stored on our database and is not sent to a third party. This includes your name, email address, and submission. By ticking the box underneath the form you consent to Squad Assist storing your submitted information so we can respond to your inquiry. We may keep these submissions for up to five years in order for us to support queries, especially those relating to issues with the app. We do not use the information submitted through the form for marketing purposes.
If you 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. These cookies will last for one 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 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.
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 expires after 1 day.
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.
Our hosting provider collects anonymous analytical data. You can read their privacy policy
here. They log the country you are viewing the website from, any search engines you have used to connect to the site from, and what operating system and browser you are using. They also provide us with error and access logs. These record your IP address and are strictly only used to monitor suspicious activity.
We use security plugins to keep our site secure. Your IP address is recorded for every failed login attempt to our admin area. After a number of failed attempts we will permamently ban your IP address from being able to access the site. Your IP may also be flagged if you carry out suspicious behavior on the site. Again, this may result in your IP address being banned.