Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for ExploreWithEline.com

Last updated: 17 September, 2025

At Explore With Eline (https://explorewitheline.com), your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you interact with our website.

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://explorewitheline.com.
For questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact me here.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract any location data from images on the site.

Cookies

  • If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies 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 set several cookies to save your login information and display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, screen options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks. If you log out, login cookies are removed.
  • If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. It contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article just edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves the same as if the visitor has visited the external website directly.

These external sites may collect data, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that external site.

Who We Share Your Data With

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

How Long We Retain Your Data

  • If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
  • For users that register on our website (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except the username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, except data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data Is Sent

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