Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.vianegativa.us. Dave Bonta is the site admin, and may be contacted via email: bontasaurus@yahoo.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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

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.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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.

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.

Where we send your data

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The information collected includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, and referrer (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name or alias, email address, optional URL link, and the comment itself).

Additional information

What third parties we receive data from

If you sign up for the Via Negativa Daily Digest using the form in the sidebar, your email and other information collected by MailChimp will be available to us through their platform. However, we will never share any of that data with a third party for any reason. We’ve never even made any attempt to match emails on the list with names and addresses, because why the hell would we? We’re busy writing poetry here, and happy that MailChimp can automatically generate a daily digest for us and not even charge us for the service because we’re such small potatoes. You can of course unsubscribe from the newsletter anytime by clicking the link in the email footer or by contacting Dave at bontasaurus@yahoo.com.