About your data…
…and how it is processed on https://mekkanikkal.org.
Encryption via SSL/TLS
This website is being secured by a valid SSL-certificate, to ensure safe traffic of data and/or information.
Commenting comments
We collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the commenter’s IP address and browser user agent string for spam detection/protection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (called a ‚hash‘) may be provided to the Gravatar service upon usage. Your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment as soon as the latter is published.
Gravatar services privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Media containing metadata
Any kind of media uploaded onto the webpage is directly made accessible. Any visitor is able to download your uploaded media, as well as look into your files‘ metadata. Please refrain from uploading files containing embedded GPS-data or coordinates, in order not to reveal your physical location to any other user.
Usage of cookies
By leaving a comment on our site, your name, email address and website might be saved by cookies, in order to remember your details for commenting. These cookies will last for one year, if not removed manually beforehand.
By visiting our login page, a temporary cookie is set up to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded as soon as your browser is closed.
Logging in will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days and by selecting „Remember Me“, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. Screen options cookies last for a year.
Editing or publishing an article saves an additional cookie in your browser, simply indicating the post ID of the article you just edited, including no personal data at all and expiring after one day.
As we’re generally having legitimate interest in saving cookies for ensuring this website’s features to work technically smoothly, cookies are contributing to a flawless and user-friendly browsing experience on this homepage.
However, as pretty much every modern browser nowadays is equipped to be configured accordingly, you’re free to delete the cookies generated by this site manually or automatically at any time given. If you do decide to not allow cookies to be saved on your device, some of this website’s features might not work the way they’re supposed to.
About embedded content
This sites‘ articles may include embedded content originating from other websites (e.g. imagery, videos, other media, etc.). When being viewed, embedded content behaves the exact same way it already did on its original website.
Thus, said websites may collect data about you by using cookies or embedding additional third-party tracking, possibly monitoring and tracking your interaction with that embedded content, provided you have an account for that website and are logged into the latter.
Neither mekkanikkal.org, nor its owner, are taking any responsibility whatsoever for the processing of your data by these third website operators through their embedded content!
On sharing your data
This webpage is being maintained and edited only by a private person, not actively sharing your data with any ‚partner‘ or company at all. With the site being hosted by ‚STRATO AG‘, the provider might be logging traffic going to or coming from this webspace, though.
By requesting a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Duration of data retention
Comments and its metadata are retained indefinitely upon publishing, in order to 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 do store the personal information provided in their user profile. Every user is able to look into, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your rights over your data
Provided you’re having 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 erasing any personal data we’re holding about you – not including any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Any questions?
Do not hesitate to make contact: https://mekkanikkal.org/legal/imprint/