Who we are
Our website address is: http://soisecurity.com.
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.
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.
Contact forms
Cookies
We gather data from you when you utilize our Website or Services, or when you use the websites or services of our third-party partners, using “pixel tags” and/or “cookies.” Pixel tags are small code snippets that allow the webpage operator or a third party to collect the IP address of the page’s users by providing a means of delivering information on a webpage. Cookies are small text files that uniquely identify the browser and provide information to the sender, and are stored on a computer’s browser. Many websites transmit cookies to the browsers of users visiting those sites, and many browsers are initially set to accept cookies. Users may alter their browser settings to reject cookies or be notified when a cookie is placed on their browser. In this regard, the user may examine the browser for further information.
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.
Analytics
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.