Our website address is: https://ppecommunity.org

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.

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 are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. Cookies may be used to keep you signed into a website and improve an understanding of how you interact with that website.

We may use cookies to remember your preferences and improve the functionality of our website. You may choose to delete or disable cookies from your browser’s settings at any time, though this may impact your experience of our website.

Our website makes use of Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”); Fathom Analytics, a web analytics service which doesn't use cookies and complies with the GDPR, ePrivacy (including PECR), COPPA and CCPA .

Our website makes use of Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Information generated through website cookies regarding your use of the Dumb site is transferred to and stored by Google in their servers hosted in the United States. This information is then used to evaluate your use of the Dumb website, including compiling reports on web activity for website operators and other services regarding Internet usage. Google may transfer this information to third parties when required to on a legal basis or in cases where the third party processes the data on Google’s behalf. This information will not be associated with your IP address or any other data held with Google. Google’s own privacy policy can be viewed at Google Analytics.

We use Marketing Cookies which allow us to follow users to other websites to show ads that are relevant and engaging to the individual user.

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

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

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.

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.

If you wish to review the rights provided to you under the Data Protection Act 1998, you can read it online at: Data Protection Act 1998