Who we are
Our website address is: https://cartaexplora.com.

Introduction
This Privacy Policy sets out how Carta Explora uses and protects any information you provide us when you use this website. We are committed to protecting your privacy. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this site, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

We are committed to ensuring the security of your information. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

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.

Media
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.

Contact form
If you fill out our contact form, you provide us with your name, your email address, and any infTo give you a better experience, our multi-language plugin uses cookies to identify the visitor’s current language, the last visited language, and the language of logged-in users. ormation you share with us in the message box. We keep contact form submissions for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information for marketing purposes.

Cookies
To give you a better experience, our multi-language plugin uses cookies to identify the visitor’s current language, the last visited language, and the language of logged-in users.

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 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.

When you log in, 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. If you log 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.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of the availability of your website activity to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information about Google’s privacy practices, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

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

Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

If you use the contact form, the information you share will be retained for a period of two years from our last communication.

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.

Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Updates
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page

Hosting
This website, Carta Explora, is hosted by:

VPS.NET
115 Broadway, Floor 5
New York, NY
10006 United States

Contact us
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, you can contact us by sending us an email: christine[at]cartaexplora.com