Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.fatdudesoftware.com. This is a blog by some fat dudes about software, so regular blog privacy-related things apply.

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 along with 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.

Cookies

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

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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.

Requests to delete or retrieve personal data may be granted on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of site administrators.

What rights you have over your data

Anything you submit may be published and reproduced as we see fit.

Where we send your data

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

Legal Jurisdiction

The site and its owners are based in the United States of America and do not acknowledge non-American laws or court orders except by coincidence. The GPDR means nothing to this site.