VirusNet portal privacy policy

Who are we

Our website address: https://virusnet.info

What personal data do we collect and for what purpose?

Comments

If a visitor leaves a comment on the site, we collect the data specified in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent data for the purpose of spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (“own”) may be provided to the Gravatar service, to determine if you are using it. Gravatar's privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ . Once a comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment..

Media file

If you are a registered user and upload photos to the site, you should probably avoid loading images with EXIF ​​metadata, as they may contain your GPS location data. Visitors can retrieve this information by downloading images from the site..

Contact forms

Hooks

If you leave a comment on our website, you can enable saving of your name, email and website addresses in cookies. This is for your convenience., so as not to fill in the data again when commenting again. These cookies are stored for one year.

If you have an account on the site and you log in to it, We will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser supports cookies, cookies do not contain any personal information and are deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in to your account, we also set several cookies with your login information and screen preferences. Login cookies are stored for two days, screen settings cookies – year. If you choose the opportunity “Remember me”, Login details will be retained for two weeks. Login cookies will be deleted when you log out of your account..

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser, it does not contain personal data and only contains the ID of the post you edited, expires in 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content. (for example video, Images, articles, etc.), similar content behaves the same, as if the visitor had visited another site.

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

Web analytics

Who do we share your data with?

With web analytics systems Goggle and Yandex

How long do we keep your data

If you leave a comment, then the comment itself and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This is done in order to, to detect and approve subsequent comments automatically, instead of putting them in a queue for approval.

For users who register on our website, we store that personal information, which they indicate in their profile. All users can see, edit or delete your profile information at any time (except username). The website administration can also see and change this information.

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have an account on the site or if you left comments, then you can request a personal data export file, that we have saved about you, including the data you provide. You can also request that this data be deleted, this does not include data, which we are required to store for administrative purposes, by law or security reasons.

Where do we send your data

User comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service..