Privacy Policy

Who we are

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Dialogue4Syria and your Data

We might use First-party cookies which are used to track the visitor’s surfing behavior on the website, to remember user activity over multiple visits etc. This information is used to optimize user experience in their subsequent visits, we do not collect nor we sell data for analytical and/or marketing purposes.

What data do we collect?

We collect as little data as possible for our operations.

For registered users, the only required information is a username and email, both of which can be changed on the Profile Settings page. Specifying a display name, organization or website is optional. We don’t use cookies that track users for analytical or marketing purposes, but for functional and administrative purposes (example of a cookie: if user logged in, a cookie that tells that browser that he is logged in).

We only store anonymized IP addresses in our database.

We do not collect your geo-location data.

Our newsletter is opt-in.

Server logs and Sentry error reports are retained only for a limited time.

Deleting your account

If you wish to opt out from the platform (Mattermost), and delete your account, please send us an email through the contact us page.

Comments

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. IP addresses will not be saved more than 3 days.

An anonymized 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

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

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. You can choose to reject all cookies.

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

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.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize 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

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, posts, chat, threads you can request full data deletion for all the information and data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative and/or legal.

Where we send your data

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

If you have any questions you can contact us at the contact us page and we will try to answer it as soon as possible.