Privacy Policy

Who we are

I am Rick Beck­man, sole author and own­er of The Edge of Absur­di­ty. I live in and pub­lish from Indi­ana, Unit­ed States. When this pol­i­cy refers to “we,” it is refer­ring to me and this site.

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. Your name and web­site address, if pro­vid­ed, will be dis­played pub­licly along with your com­ment. Your email address will be used to iden­ti­fy repeat com­menters to facil­i­tate faster com­ment mod­er­a­tion. If you opt in to the com­ment reply noti­fi­ca­tions, your email address will also be used to noti­fy you of replies. Your infor­ma­tion will nev­er be sold or shared.

An anonymized string cre­at­ed from your email address (also called a hash) will 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.

If you vis­it our login page, we will set a tem­po­rary cook­ie to deter­mine if your brows­er accepts cook­ies. This cook­ie con­tains no per­son­al data and is dis­card­ed when you close your brows­er.

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.

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.

What rights you have over your data

If you 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 that we erase any per­son­al data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are oblig­ed to keep for admin­is­tra­tive, legal, or secu­ri­ty pur­pos­es.

Where your data is sent

Vis­i­tor com­ments may be checked through an auto­mat­ed spam detec­tion ser­vice, although cur­rent­ly this not the case.