b3ck.org I tinker. I fix. Therfore I am.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.b3ck.org
We are not some professional site that sells our user data, but a small blog, just for fun and information sharing. Your data is yours, we don’t share it or sell it, or even want it, but we do need to provide this data, because sometimes data gets transferred or shared via website affiliations and plugins.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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. We also use Akismet to reduce Comment Spammers.
Akismet
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Gravatar
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
We do NOT allow for media uploads. If you do somehow 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.
Contact forms
When you send us emails via our contact form, your email address, IP address, and any information you fill into these forms (name, subject and body of email) are sent to us.
We do not retain this information, nor do we use any of this information submitted through our contact forms for marketing purposes. We only receive this data to facilitate communication, and we delete the information and emails immediately after we respond to you.
Cookies
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We do use Google Analytics for traffic analytics, Google Adsense, Amazon Associates and Ebay Partners for site monetization, so they may set cookies from their side.
Google Analytics Terms of Service
Affiliate and Referral Links
B3ck.org participates in the Amazon Associates and Ebay Partners program, and this site or the blog posts, hosted here, may contain affiliate links.
Ebay Partners links provide us with a small referral fee for any purchases you make.
b3ck.org is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
The programs do not increase the cost of the products you are purchasing.
Who we share your data with
We don’t share your data with anyone, we are just a small nerdy blog, and we behave, as we would want other sites to behave with our data.
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.
Contact information
You may contact us via https://www.b3ck.org/contact/
Additional information
How we protect your data
Anyone who admins this site, which is currently just ME, is required to use a strong password and 2 Factor Authentication. We also have various security mechanisms in place to alert us to any logins to the site, and any attempts to brute force attack the login page. We use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that this site, and all data is safe and kept secure.
What data breach procedures we have in place
Anyone who admins this site, which is currently just ME, is required to use a strong password and 2 Factor Authentication. We also have various security mechanisms in place to alert us to any logins to the site, and any attempts to brute force attack the login page. We use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that this site, and all data is safe and kept secure.
What do I want with your data?
Absolutely nothing. I am just a blogger for fun, and the tools I use, that are listed above, are just to tune my site and to make sure that I am engaging correctly, and have proper search engine optimization. I am a firm believer in privacy, and I will not use your data for evil.