Our identity

Welcome to Greenfield! We’re glad you’re here. At Greenfield, we take privacy seriously, and we want you to feel comfortable and informed about how we handle your data. Below, we’ve detailed our practices regarding different aspects of data collection, usage, and protection.

Comments

When you engage with our content by leaving comments, we collect various pieces of data to enhance your experience and maintain the integrity of our platform. This includes the information you provide in the comments form, such as your name, email address, and the content of your message. Additionally, we gather your IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.

If you use Gravatar, an anonymized hash generated from your email address may be sent to their service to check if you have a profile picture associated with it. Upon comment approval, your profile picture becomes publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media

In the event you upload images to our website, please be mindful to exclude any embedded location data (EXIF GPS) from them. Visitors can potentially extract this information from the images available on our site.

Cookies

To enhance your browsing experience, we may utilize cookies. If you leave a comment, you have the option to opt-in for saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies streamline the commenting process by prefilling your details for future interactions, and they remain active for one year.

When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to verify whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded upon closing your browser. Additionally, upon logging in, several cookies are established to retain your login information and screen display preferences. These cookies have varying lifespans, with login cookies lasting for two days and screen options cookies lasting for a year. Choosing “Remember Me” extends your login persistence to two weeks. If you log out, these login cookies are deleted.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved to your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and solely indicates the post ID of the article you’ve recently edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on our site may incorporate embedded content (such as videos, images, or articles) from external sources. This embedded content functions similarly to if you were visiting the originating website directly.

These external websites may collect data about you, utilize cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged in to that particular website.

Who we share your data with

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

How long we retain your data

Comments and their associated metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic recognition and approval of follow-up comments, eliminating the need for manual moderation.

For registered users, we store the personal information provided in their user profiles. Users have the ability to access, modify, or delete their personal information at any time, with the exception of their username, which cannot be changed. Website administrators also have access to and can edit this information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account or have left comments on our site, you have the right to request an exported file containing the personal data we hold about you. Additionally, you can request the deletion of any personal data we possess, excluding data we’re required to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may undergo automated spam detection processes to maintain the quality and integrity of our platform.