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RiddlesHut.com the privacy of our visitors is extremely important. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected and how it is used.
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how RiddleHut.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you visit our website https://riddleshut.com. By using our website, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
Like most websites, RiddlesHut.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.
We collect certain information automatically when you visit our website, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and the dates and times of your visits. We also collect information about the pages you view on our website, the links you click, and the search terms you enter.
We use Google Analytics to collect this information, and we use this information to improve our website and to understand how our visitors use our website. We also use Google AdSense to serve ads on our website. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on your visit to our website and other websites on the internet.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help 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 privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. RiddlesHut.com uses cookies to help RiddlesHut.com identify and track visitors, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are 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.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist 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 includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
RiddlesHut.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using RiddlesHut.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Riddles’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Information We Share
We do not share your personal information with third parties, except as described in this Privacy Policy. We may share your information with our service providers who provide us with services such as website hosting and maintenance, data analysis, and email delivery.
We may also disclose your information if required by law or if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.
How long we retain your data
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 holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over 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 to us. 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.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting the updated Privacy Policy on our website.
Contact Us
Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you are still looking for more information then contact us at contact[at]riddleshut.com
