Effective Date: July 14, 2023
American Overview (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at https://americanoverview.com.
1. Information We Collect
Comments
When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to display your profile picture. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.
Media
If you upload images to our website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images on the site.
Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies will last for one year.
When you visit our login page, we 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.
Upon logging in, we set several cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out will remove the login cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie containing the post ID of the article will be saved in your browser. This cookie expires after one day and includes no personal data.
2. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) from other websites. Embedded content behaves as if you have visited the other website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve user experience and website functionality
- Detect and prevent spam and security threats
- Communicate with you regarding comments and account activity
4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
5. Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to enable automatic approval of follow-up comments without holding them in a moderation queue.
For registered users, we store the personal information provided in user profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except usernames). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
6. Your Data Protection Rights
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: You can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
- Correction: You can update or correct your personal information through your user profile.
- Deletion: You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, except data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
7. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
8. Third-Party Services
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services linked from our site.
9. Children’s Privacy
Our website is not directed to individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected such information, we will take steps to delete it.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting to our website. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of our services constitutes acceptance of any modifications.
11. International Users
If you are accessing our website from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us through the information provided on our website.