Who We Are
Our website address is: https://pnwheatingair.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data displayed in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. This helps us with spam detection.
Additionally, an anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify usage. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here. Upon comment approval, your profile picture, if linked, will be visible to the public within the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to our website, ensure they do not contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can potentially download and extract this data.
Cookies
- Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- Login Page: A temporary cookie is set to check if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- Logged-in Users: Upon login, cookies are set to save your login details and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days, while screen preference cookies last one year. If you choose “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
- Article Publishing: If you edit or publish an article, a cookie will save the post ID of the article. This cookie expires after one day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Our articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.), which behaves as if you visited the originating website. These external websites may collect data, use cookies, embed additional tracking tools, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, particularly if you are logged into their site.
Data Sharing
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Data Retention
- Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to streamline approval of follow-up comments.
- Registered Users: For registered users, personal information provided is stored in their user profiles. Users can view, edit, or delete their data at any time, except for their username. Administrators have access to edit user profiles.
Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request the deletion of your personal data, excluding data we are legally required to retain.
Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments may be screened through an automated spam detection service to ensure site integrity and security.