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+# Privacy Policy
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+## What Is Collected?
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+Your email address, username, and display name are collected during account creation and retained on file with a hash of your password. The information is stored for as long as you keep your account. If you delete your account, the information is destroyed.
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+IP addresses are analyzed to perform a GeoIP lookup to provide "best guess" analytics about where traffic comes from. The system does not store IP addresses, only a number of visits from Pittsburgh, PA, for example.
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+## Where is information collected?
+
+You are asked for personal information during account signup and in your account settings. That information is your email address, username, display name, bio, and password. Your password is not stored by this system. A hash of your password is stored, instead.
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+The system automates the collection of page visit statistics. We do not use a 3rd-party service to collect or analyze the data. Your IP address is not collected. Your IP address is not being stored. Aggregate stats based on a best guess of your location using GeoIP is stored.
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+Information about you is collected when commenting on a post, and you are publicly attributed as the author of a comment. Your IP address is not collected or stored when commenting. Your IP address is not geolocated when commenting (only when loading the article or page).
+
+## Why do you collect this information?
+
+Your email address, username, and password are what define your user account on this website. This information is used to enable you to log in and comment on posts and other events on the site. Your email address, if you opt-in for the Newsletter, is used to deliver the Newsletter.
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+Your information may be used to enter you in random drawings for giveaways and other contests. This does not happen automatically, you will be asked if you want to participate in a specific contest when they happen. If you opt-in, then you will be part of that contest. If you don't opt-in, you won't be part of the contest.
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+Your information may be used to help prevent fraudulent activities and to help us prevent spam in the comments and other areas of the site. Your information is simply how you prove who you are to us. And, if we like you, we let you in.
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+We do not otherwise use your information. Your information is not sold or shared with any 3rd-party entities, and will only be used by this website for the purposes stated here.
+
+## Your rights over your data
+
+You retain full rights to you data. This website claims no rights to your data.