Privacy Policy for Pathway Peak

Welcome to Pathway Peak! Our website address is: https://pathwaypeak.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on Pathway Peak, we collect the data displayed in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string (also called a hash) may be generated from your email address and provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. You can review the Gravatar service privacy policy here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to Pathway Peak, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract location data from these images.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again for another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

We set several cookies when you log in to save your login information and 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. Upon logging out, these cookies will be removed.

Editing or publishing an article sets an additional cookie in your browser, which does not contain personal data. It simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited and expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Such content behaves in the 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 the embedded content, including if you have an account and are logged in to those websites.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data Retention

We retain comment data indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. For registered users (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (username cannot be changed). Administrators can also see and edit that information.

Your Rights

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you may request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Transfer

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