Privacy policy

Who we are

Our website address is: futurehistories.org.uk

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, in addition to the data shown in the comments form, we also collect 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/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes 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.

Contact forms

Information such as names or email addresses collected via contact forms on this website will be stored for communication purposes; however, such information will never be shared with a third party.

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 subsequent comments. These cookies will last for one year.

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, that comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This enables us to automatically recognise and approve any follow-up comments 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 (apart from changing their username) at any time. 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 leave comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You may also request us to erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

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