Who We Are
Our site address is: https://www.pctia.org. This Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal information.
Information We Collect
We collect personal information in the following ways:
■ Contact form – When you send us a message, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.
■ Comments – If you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
■ Embedded content – Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you visited the other website. Those websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
■ Automatic data – When you visit our site, we automatically collect basic technical data (e.g., IP address, browser type, pages viewed) through server logs and cookies.
Cookies
If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
We also use essential and basic analytics cookies to improve our website. You can control cookies through your browser settings.
How We Use Your Information
We use your information to:
Respond to your inquiries.
Manage and display comments (if enabled).
Improve our website and ensure its security.
We do not sell or rent your personal information.
Data Retention
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically.
Contact form submissions are kept for as long as needed to respond to your inquiry or as required by law.
When no longer needed, we delete or anonymise your information.
Your Rights
If you have left comments or submitted a contact form, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, or request that we erase your personal data. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Updates to This Policy
If we change this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated version here.