Who are you?
I’m some white cis male nerd from the United States.
What personal data do you collect it and why?
Comments
I log your IP. Not for anything malicious. Just to reverse-DNS you if I think you’re interesting, or to drop you on iptables if I think you’re being an asshole. Also I guess Akismet and Gravatar probably log your IP for their own purposes. Oh and Recaptcha. Which is Google.
Media
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, as can I.
Contact forms
Contact and comment forms will store your email, IP and whatever else you voluntarily provide. I might keep them. I might delete them even. But I won’t abuse them. I love all my comments as if they were my children.
If you comment and try to provide a website link, especially if the comment says, “Great blog post! Very useful information! I will tell my friends to come check out your amazing blog! Now visit MY website and sign up for SEO services plz,” I’ll more than likely strip it out manually before publishing that sort of cookie cutter comment. Unless I decide to delete it. Those kinds of comments I DON’T consider my children.
Cookies
Did you leave a comment? WordPress will probably write a cookie to your computer to keep your information on hand if you want to comment again.
Also if you are able to log in, there will be cookies.
WordPress suggested I explain what cookies are. But you’re not an idiot that’s been living under a rock, right? You know what cookies are, right? Visit any other site on the entire internet and let them explain it to you if you are and you don’t, respectively.
Embedded content from other websites
Hotlinked crap I put on this site might also harvest your information. Nothing I can do about that. Except scrape the site and host its content myself. Which I prefer to do anyway.
Who do you share my data with?
Google Analytics – Here is their GDPR Compliance Statement.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so WordPress can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
If you’re able to register on this site (you shouldn’t be able to), WordPress also stores the personal information you provide in your user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). As the administrator I can also see and edit that information.
For the purposes of security, IP addresses are retained locally for a period of no more than two weeks probably indefinitely because I forget it exists and I’m not going to log into this personal blog and clear out IPs, nor do I have time to set up a cron script to do it for me, nor do I care.
Google Analytics will store data for 26 months.
What did that Swiss jackass and his political lackeys give me rights over?
Apparently they gave you the right to request that I delete your personal information. Feel free if you want. There’s a box down there at the bottom of this page (where I’m pointing).
Where do you send my data?
Akismet and Google Analytics. Also Google Adsense since I started showing inline ads (and in the 3 years I’ve had advertisements, I’ve garnered $10.50, so I don’t know why I bother).
If you’re worried about Akismet doing something with your information, don’t waste your time or mine by commenting useless advertising or your information WILL be harvested for all the blacklists in the world. Actually it probably already is.
If you’re worried about Google doing something with your information….good luck. They are our Supreme Leaders.
Additional information
Data Protection
I host this on my own hardware in my own house. If, somehow (and I’m sure it’s easier than I think), someone is backdooring into this server to steal any information hosted here, I do my best to patch those holes as I find them because I hate them as much as you. But damn, port forwarding opens you up for annoyances, amirite? If someone breaks into my house, well, I have bigger problems than your personal information. Unless they steal ONLY the 32GB SD card in the Raspberry Pi this thing is running from. THEN I’ll worry about you.
Additionally I’m bored of rewriting this, so here’s the old, formal jargon for the rest of this page:
Our site is served over an SSL/TLS encrypted connection and signed by the LetsEncrypt certificate authority, so any information sent through a form on this site will be protected from traffic sniffing and man-in-the-middle attacks.
– This page 15 minutes ago before I was feeling snarky.