Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Welcome to OfficialChambers.com. Our website can be found at https://officialchambers.com.

Comments

When you leave comments on OfficialChambers.com, we gather the information displayed in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.

Your email address may be converted into an anonymized string, known as a hash, and provided to the Gravatar service to verify if you are a user. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is available here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Media

If you choose to upload images to our website, we recommend avoiding images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to protect your privacy. Be aware that visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you comment on our site, you can opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience, so you don’t need to re-enter these details for future comments. These cookies last one year.

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

Upon login, we set several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, while screen option cookies last a year. If you choose “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.

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 edited, expiring after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). This content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited those websites directly.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into those websites.

Data Sharing

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

Data Retention

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely for follow-up comment recognition and approval. For registered users, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information anytime (username cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.

Your Rights Over Your Data

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

Where Your Data is Sent

Your comments may be reviewed through an automated spam detection service to ensure the quality and safety of interactions on our site.

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