The software we use to make this blog happen is called WordPress and it’s pretty cool. It lets you get a dynamic, super customisable website up and running in tens of minutes and it’s designed with the big fish in mind. We are a little mouse with a small human crew who want to share their occasional travel hijinks.
WordPress sternly suggests we put out a privacy policy to make sure you know what’s up. The story here is that we want none of that app-powered late stage capitalism dystopia with ads tailored to your very own amygdala. We did all we could think of to make sure no tracking, data mining, sharing and selling takes place here but since we’re not in IT, out of abundance of caution, we’ll share the privacy policy WordPress kindly suggests we share, with Fika’s commentary.
One situation of note is when you decide to email us or ask us to hit you up when we travel. Our emails are also powered entirely by our hosting provider and synced to Fika’s pretty solidly secured computer and won’t ever leave those on purpose.
Fika uses Linux btw and you should too! Try Debian, it works super well!
Who we are
Suggested text: Our website address is: https://fika.bigscarybear.cz.
Comments
Fika says: we don’t have that feature enabled here.
Suggested text: 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.
An anonymised 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.
Media
Fika says: there should be no way of uploading media for visitors.
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Fika says: only Fika has an account to post her updates so only Fika gets cookies!
Suggested text: 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.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Fika says: we try to take good care to not embed any external content, to our knowledge everything aside from the little map display in posts that shows where Fika posts from, is hosted on our provider’s servers. The maps are loaded from openstreetmap.org and they’re chill folks, like Wikipedia but with maps. You should check them out. And their privacy policy is here.
Suggested text: 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.
Who we share your data with
Fika says: no password for you to reset.
Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Fika says: we don’t want none of that data.
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Fika says: we don’t collect your data. You do you. This is a safe space.
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or 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
Fika says: that stuff is disabled.
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.