Personal data protection policy

Who are we?

Our website address is: ellona.io.

Use of collected personal data

Comments

When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent. This information helps us detect unwanted comments.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and upload images to our website, avoid uploading images that contain EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to our site can download and extract location data from these images.

Cookies

• Comments: If you leave a comment, you will be offered to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience, so you do not have to enter this information again for another comment. These cookies expire after one year.
• Login: When you visit the login page, a temporary cookie is created to check if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and is deleted when you close your browser. Upon login, we set several cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. Login cookies expire after two days, and screen preference cookies after one year. If you select “Remember me,” your login cookie will be retained for two weeks. Upon logout, login cookies are deleted.
• Editing and Publishing: When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data and expires after one day.

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited those sites directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and track your interactions with these embedded contents if you have an account on their website.

Use and transmission of your personal data

We do not share your information with third parties.

Data retention period

If you leave a comment, it and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows for the automatic recognition and approval of subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.

For registered users on our site, we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All users can view, modify, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.

Your rights regarding your data

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security purposes.