Privacy Policy

Our company, owner of the website www.spotazores.com, understands and respects the importance of protecting the data provided by the website’s users. Consequently, it practices a firm privacy policy, in order to protect all users of the site. Through the privacy policy, the rules regarding the collection of information and practices for disclosing data collected from website users are established and disclosed.

Who we are

The website SpotAzores.com aims to disseminate real-time images of different points of tourist and leisure interest in the Azores archipelago. In addition to the images, users have access to content on this website, namely weather conditions in these locations, useful for practicing sports such as mountain biking, trails, climbing, water sports such as surfing, bodyboarding, windsurfing, kite surfing, among others.

Our website address is: https://www.spotazores.com.

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 your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Multimedia

When uploading images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract geolocation data from images on the site.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. This is 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 the login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and will be deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, some cookies will be set to save your session information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your session will persist for two weeks. When you log out, your 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 content ID of the article you just edited. Expires after 1 day.

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.

This website may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions with that website, including recording interactions with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who your data is shared with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long is your data retained?

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are saved indefinitely. This is so that any subsequent comments can be automatically recognized and approved, rather than being held in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we 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). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.

What rights do 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 saved data be deleted. This does not include any personal data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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