About us

Our website address is: https://warddogs.com.

What personal data we collect and why

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 data, to help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to Gravatar to verify that you are using the service. Gravatar's privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

Contact forms

Cookies

When leaving a comment on the website, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you will not need to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in to your account on the website, we also create several cookies to save your account data and screen display choices. Login cookies are kept for two days and screen option cookies for one year. If you select “Remember me,” your access will be maintained 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 does not include any personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded media from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, articles, etc. Embedded content from other sites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor were visiting the other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with this 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 keep your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. We do this so that we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.

For users who register on our website (if applicable), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (only their username cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

Where we send your data

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