Privacy Policy

At ancientist.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled responsibly. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.

Personal Data Collection

At Ancientist, we prioritize your privacy and are committed to maintaining the highest standards of data protection. We want to assure you that we do not collect any personal data from our users unless users give willingly, nor do we engage in any tracking of user activity.

Analytics

We use Simple Analytics to understand how our website is used without collecting personal data. Simple Analytics provides insights such as the number of visitors, page views, and browser types without using cookies or tracking personal information.

Simple Analytics does not track or store personal information. It respects your privacy by not using cookies or collecting identifiable data, such as IP addresses or device-specific details.

We value your privacy and have chosen Simple Analytics because it prioritizes user privacy. This means you can browse our website without concerns about data tracking or profiling.

Our use of Simple Analytics supports our compliance with data protection regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, as no personal data is processed or stored.

For more information about Simple Analytics and how it works, please visit their Privacy Policy.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

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’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public alongside your comment.

Media

When uploading images to the site, you should avoid uploading images that include location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download images from the site and extract location data from them.

Cookies

When you leave a comment on the site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is 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.

Data Retention Period

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 keeping them in a moderation queue.

For users registered on this site, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile page. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information (although they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit that information.

Your Rights Regarding Your Data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data is Sent

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

Please note that we may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for any updates.

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