Our website address is: https:\/\/voiceofbackgammon.com.<\/p>\n
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor\u2019s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.<\/p>\n
This feature only records activities of a site\u2019s registered users, and the retention duration of activity data will depend on the site\u2019s plan and activity type.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> To deliver this functionality and record activities around site management, the following information is captured: user email address, user role, user login, user display name, WordPress.com and local user IDs, the activity to be recorded, the WordPress.com-connected site ID of the site on which the activity takes place, the site\u2019s Jetpack version, and the timestamp of the activity. Some activities may also include the actor\u2019s IP address (login attempts, for example) and user agent.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Login attempts\/actions, post and page update and publish actions, comment\/pingback submission and management actions, plugin and theme management actions, widget updates, user management actions, and the modification of other various site settings and options. Retention duration of activity data depends on the site\u2019s plan and activity type. See the complete list of currently-recorded activities (along with retention information)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Data Synced (?<\/a>):<\/strong> Successful and failed login attempts, which will include the actor\u2019s IP address and user agent.<\/p>\n This feature is only available to sites on the Premium and Professional plans.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> The following information (made available from the visitor\u2019s browser) is collected and sent to Automattic\u2019s Demand Partners: IP address, geographical data (derived from the IP address), user agent, operating system, device type, unique user ID (randomly generated identifier), current URL, and IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) interest category. Log data (IP address, geographical data, user agent, operating system, device type) is stored for 30 days. The unique user ID is stored in cookies and is retained for 1 year.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Ad impressions, video-related events (i.e. pause, mute, 100% plays, etc.) or errors, and ad click events. Various cookies are used for the following purposes: delivering targeted advertisements to specific visitors, storing user identifiers, and collecting anonymous ad platform stats.<\/p>\n Image views are only recorded if the site owner, has explicitly enabled image view stats tracking for this feature via the Data Used:<\/strong> If image view tracking is enabled, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Image views.<\/p>\n This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> In order to process a comment like, the following information is used: WordPress.com user ID\/username (you must be logged in to use this feature), the local site-specific user ID (if the user is signed in to the site on which the like occurred), and a true\/false data point that tells us if the user liked a specific comment. If you perform a like action from one of our mobile apps<\/a>, some additional information is used to track the activity: IP address, user agent, timestamp of event, blog ID, browser language, country code, and device info.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Comment likes.<\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> If Akismet<\/a> is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data \u2014 IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message \u2014 is submitted to the Akismet<\/a> service (also owned by Automattic<\/a>) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter\u2019s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.<\/p>\n Data Synced (?<\/a>):<\/strong> Post and post meta data associated with a user\u2019s contact form submission. If Akismet<\/a> is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.<\/p>\n This feature is only available to sites on the Premium and Professional plans.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> Please refer to the appropriate Google Analytics documentation<\/a> for the specific type of data it collects. For sites running WooCommerce<\/a> (also owned by Automattic<\/a>) and this feature simultaneously and having all purchase tracking explicitly enabled, purchase events will send Google Analytics the following information: order number, product id and name, product category, total cost, and quantity of items purchased. Google Analytics does offer IP anonymization<\/a>, which can be enabled by the site owner.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> This feature sends page view events (and potentially video play events<\/a>) over to Google Analytics for consumption. For sites running WooCommerce-powered stores, some additional events are also sent to Google Analytics: shopping cart additions and removals, product listing views and clicks, product detail views, and purchases. Tracking for each specific WooCommerce event needs to be enabled by the site owner.<\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> This feature will send a hash of the user\u2019s email address (if logged in to the site or WordPress.com \u2014 or if they submitted a comment on the site using their email address that is attached to an active Gravatar profile) to the Gravatar<\/a> service (also owned by Automattic<\/a>) in order to retrieve their profile image.<\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> In order to record page views via WordPress.com Stats<\/a> (which must be enabled for page view tracking here to work) with additional loads, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Page views will be tracked with each additional load (i.e. when you scroll down to the bottom of the page and a new set of posts loads automatically). If the site owner has enabled Google Analytics<\/a> to work with this feature, a page view event will also be sent to the appropriate Google Analytics account with each additional load.<\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> Commenter\u2019s name, email address, and site URL (if provided via the comment form), timestamp, and IP address. Additionally, a jetpack.wordpress.com IFrame receives the following data: WordPress.com blog ID attached to the site, ID of the post on which the comment is being submitted, commenter\u2019s local user ID (if available), commenter\u2019s local username (if available), commenter\u2019s site URL (if available), MD5 hash of the commenter\u2019s email address (if available), and the comment content. If Akismet<\/a> (also owned by Automattic<\/a>) is enabled on the site, the following information is sent to the service for the sole purpose of spam checking: commenter\u2019s name, email address, site URL, IP address, and user agent.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> The comment author\u2019s name, email address, and site URL (if provided during the comment submission) are stored in cookies. Learn more about these cookies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Data Synced (?<\/a>):<\/strong> All data and metadata (see above) associated with comments. This includes the status of the comment and, if Akismet<\/a> is enabled on the site, whether or not it was classified as spam by Akismet.<\/p>\n This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> In order to process a post like action, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID (on which the post was liked), post ID (of the post that was liked), user agent, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Post likes.<\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> A visitor\u2019s preference on viewing the mobile version of a site.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> A cookie ( This feature is only accessible to registered users of the site who are logged in to WordPress.com.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Some visitor-related information or activity may be sent to the site owner via this feature. This may include: email address, WordPress.com username, site URL, email address, comment content, follow actions, etc.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Sending notifications (i.e. when we send a notification to a particular user), opening notifications (i.e. when a user opens a notification that they receive), performing an action from within the notification panel (e.g. liking a comment or marking a comment as spam), and clicking on any link from within the notification panel\/interface.<\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user\u2019s IP address, attempting user\u2019s email address\/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie ( Data Synced (?<\/a>):<\/strong> Failed login attempts, which contain the user\u2019s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.<\/p>\n This feature is only available to sites on the Professional plan.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> Any of the visitor-chosen search filters and query data in order to process a search request on the WordPress.com servers.<\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet<\/a> is active on the site), the following information is used: sharing party\u2019s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body\/content. This content will be sent to Akismet<\/a> (also owned by Automattic<\/a>) so that a spam check can be performed. Additionally, if reCAPTCHA<\/a> (by Google) is enabled by the site owner, the sharing party\u2019s IP address will be shared with that service. You can find Google\u2019s privacy policy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n This feature is only available to sites on the Premium and Professional plans, and the actual payment processing is handled by PayPal.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> Transaction amount, transaction currency code, product title, product price, product ID, order quantity, PayPal payer ID, and PayPal transaction ID.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> The PayPal payer ID, transaction ID, and HTTP referrer are sent with a payment completion tracking event that is attached to the site owner.<\/p>\n Data Synced (?<\/a>):<\/strong> PayPal transaction ID, PayPal transaction status, PayPal product ID, quantity, price, customer email address, currency, and payment button CTA text.<\/p>\n Because payments are processed by PayPal, we recommend reviewing its privacy policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> To initiate and process subscriptions, the following information is used: subscriber\u2019s email address and the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed). In the event of a new subscription being initiated, we also collect some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user\u2019s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI which was given in order to access the page ( Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Functionality cookies<\/a> are set for a duration of 347 days<\/strong> to remember a visitor\u2019s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription.<\/p>\n This feature is only available to sites on the Premium and Professional plans.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> For video play tracking via WordPress.com Stats<\/a>, the following information is used: viewer\u2019s IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. If Google Analytics<\/a> is enabled, video play events will be sent there, as well.<\/p>\n Activity Tracked:<\/strong> Video plays.<\/p>\n Data Used:<\/strong> For payments with PayPal or Stripe:<\/em> purchase total, currency, billing information. For taxes:<\/em> the value of goods in the cart, value of shipping, destination address. For checkout rates:<\/em> destination address, purchased product IDs, dimensions, weight, and quantities. For shipping labels:<\/em> customer\u2019s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products.<\/p>\n Data Synced (?<\/a>):<\/strong> For payments, we send the purchase total, currency and customer\u2019s billing information to the respective payment processor. Please see the respective third party\u2019s privacy policy (Stripe\u2019s Privacy Policy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0PayPal\u2019s Privacy Policy<\/a>) for more details. For automated taxes we send the value of goods in the cart, the value of shipping, and the destination address to TaxJar. Please see TaxJar\u2019s\u00a0Privacy Policy<\/a>\u00a0for details about how they handle this information. For checkout rates we send the destination ZIP\/postal code and purchased product dimensions, weight and quantities to USPS<\/a> or\u00a0Canada Post<\/a>, depending on the service used. For shipping labels we send the customer\u2019s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products to\u00a0EasyPost<\/a>. We also store the purchased shipping labels on our server to make it easy to reprint them and handle support requests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who we are Our website address is: https:\/\/voiceofbackgammon.com. 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