Privacy Policy - Global Energy Portal

Who We Are

The address of our website is: http://globalenergyportal.com

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser data, to help with spam detection.

A string of characters created from your email (also known as a hash) may be sent to verify if you use the service. The privacy policy is available here: https://globalenergyportal.com/privacy-policy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the site, avoid uploading those that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors may download these images from the site and extract their location data.

Cookies

When leaving a comment on the site, you may choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you won’t have to fill in your details again when leaving 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 if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in to your account on the site, 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 are kept for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login 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 Sites

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

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into the site.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the password reset email.

How long we retain your data

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

For users who register on our site (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 (the username cannot be changed). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.

What rights you have over your data

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