Privacy
Privacy
Who We Are
WizardShell is a blog for Scripting and Automation, Azure, System Administration, and other related topics. Our website address is: https://wizardshell.com.
Individual Privacy
User 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. Gravatar generates the funny little robots and doodle-men based on the unique hash. 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. Don’t get yourself doxed and slow my site.
Cookies
All in all, I don’t believe in pop-ups for advertising. If the privacy policy is changed, a pop-up will be enabled for the next three months. The pop-up saves a cookie upon close to ensure you have read this privacy notice and expires after three months. This is incredibly annoying and can be avoided if you print the websites out.
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. If you write a comment on a paper copy of a webpage, other users cannot read it.
Login Cookies
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. You cannot login to a paper copy of the website.
You may be provided credentials to log into this website. Afterward, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. When logging out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day. Paper copies of new articles will not replicate online.
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.
Data Privacy
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. With repeat resets, I may also tell my mom you forgot your password so we can laugh at you. Information, including IP address, pages visited, and website connection status are recorded internally for analytics but are not shared. The WizardShell.com domain was purchased from Google and Google may (and probably does) independently monitor activity.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely (forever and ever until the solar flares hit). This is so we can recognize 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.
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. If you support Student Loan Forgiveness your rights will be limited as much as possible, just like the taxpayers who are losing financial security because of wasteful government spending, endless wars, and moral decay in lieu of whatever consumer culture calls “the modern/college/military experience”.
Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.