Introduction
TheMassTimes (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is the creator of this Privacy Policy. We take your privacy as a priority. To better protect your privacy, we provide this Privacy Policy to explain our information collection and disclosure policies and your rights and choices on how information is collected and used. By visiting https://themasstimes.com/, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy. This privacy policy applies only to TheMassTimes, not to any other website that you may be able to access from our website.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our customer support email: contact@themasstimes.
Comments
When a visitor leaves a comment, we collect the data displayed on the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser User-Agent string, to help check for spam.
An anonymized string generated from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to confirm your usage of the service. The privacy policy of Gravatar Service is here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly displayed next to your comment.
Media
If you upload images to this site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded geolocation information (EXIF GPS). Visitors to this site will have access to download and extract location information from images.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to use cookies to save your name, email address, and website address, meaning that you can comment without having to fill in the fields again. These cookies are retained for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to confirm that your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.
We also set multiple cookies to store your login information and screen display options when you log in. Login cookies are retained for two days, and screen display options cookies are retained for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login status will be retained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish a post, we will save an additional cookie in your browser, which contains no personal data but only the ID of the post you have just edited and which will be retained for one day.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). The behaviour of embedded content from other sites is no different from that of your direct access to those other sites.
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking programs, and monitor your interactions with such embedded content, including tracking your interactions with embedded content when you have an account and are logged in to these sites.
Who Do We Share Your Information with?
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the password reset email.
How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata will be stored indefinitely. So that we can recognize and automatically approve any subsequent comments without adding them to a pending queue.
For registered users of the site, we also store the personal information that users provide in their profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except that they cannot change their username), and site administrators can also view and edit that information.
What are Your Rights Regarding Your Information?
If you are a registered user on this site or have ever left a comment, you can request that we provide you with an export file of the personal data we have about you, which includes all the data you have provided to us. You can also ask us to clear all personal data about you. This does not include data that we must retain for administrative, regulatory, or security purposes.
Where will Your Data be Sent to?
Guest comments may be sent to and checked by automated spam comment monitoring services.