About Us

Welcome to KnowALS.com. You can find us online at: http://knowals.com.

Comments

When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the information shown in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection.

Should you use an email address to comment, it may be hashed and sent to Gravatar to see if you’re registered with the service, whose privacy policy can be found at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile picture becomes publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media

We advise against uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to the website. Such data can be downloaded and extracted by any visitor.

Cookies

Leaving a comment on our site might prompt you to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you don’t have to refill your details for future comments. These cookies last one year.

Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies, containing no personal data and deleted once you close your browser.

Logging in creates several cookies to save your login info and screen display choices, lasting for two days to one year, depending on your selections. Logging out removes these cookies.

Editing or publishing an article sets a cookie in your browser indicating the post ID of the article you edited, expiring after 1 day.

Embedded Content

Articles on this site may include embedded content (videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites, behaving as if the visitor has gone directly to the source site.

These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking interactions if you’re logged in to their website.

Data Sharing

Your IP address is included in the reset email if you request a password reset.

Data Retention

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely for recognizing and approving any follow-up comments automatically. We also store personal information users provide in their profiles, which they can view, edit, or delete at any time (username changes are not permitted). Our administrators can also see and edit this information.

Your Data Rights

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an export of your personal data we hold, including any data you’ve provided. You may also request the deletion of any personal data we have about you, excluding data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data Goes

Comments may be vetted by an automated spam detection service.