Who we are
Our website address is: https://ardal.nu. This site is independently hosted on private infrastructure.
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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Cookies and Advertising
General Cookies: 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 and 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.
Advertising (Google AdSense): We use Google AdSense to serve ads when you visit our website. Google uses cookies (such as the DART cookie) to serve ads based on your visit to this site and other sites on the Internet.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
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.
Server Logging & Security
As this site is behind a reverse proxy for security and performance, our server logs capture technical information such as IP addresses and access patterns. This data is used strictly for security purposes (mitigating attacks) and to ensure the stability of the caching layers.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. For users that register on our website, 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).
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. 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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Information
For any privacy-related inquiries, please contact: [blogg@ardal.nu]