Privacy Policy – Dovatale

At Dovatale, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you visit our website https://dovatale.com or interact with our services.

Information We Collect

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, 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 use it. 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 site, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

• If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These last for 1 year.

• When you log in, cookies are used to save your login information and display preferences.

  • Login cookies last 2 days.

  • “Remember Me” keeps your login for 2 weeks.

  • Display settings cookies last 1 year.

• If you log out, login cookies are removed.

• If you edit or publish an article, an additional temporary cookie (no personal data) will be stored and expires after 1 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content behaves exactly as if you visited the other website.

These sites may collect your data, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content (especially if you are logged in).

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

• Comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely so follow-up comments can be auto-approved.

• Registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal data anytime (except usernames). Website admins can also access and edit this data.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account on our site, or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.

This does not include data we are obliged to keep for legal, administrative, or security purposes.

Where Your Data Is Sent

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