Privacy Policy Who We Are Our website address is: https://barefootshoes.org Comments When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string generated 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 privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible to the public in relation to your comment. Media If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading those with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from images. 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 you don’t have to re-enter your details the next time you comment. These cookies will remain for one year. When you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal information and is discarded when you close your browser. Upon logging in, we will set up cookies to store your login information and display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for a year. If you choose “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out will remove these cookies. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved to your browser. This cookie stores no personal data and simply notes the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day. Embedded Content from Other Websites Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you have visited the original website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the content, especially if you are logged into 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 When you leave a comment, both the comment and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically, without holding them in a moderation queue. For users who register on our website (if applicable), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information. Your Data Rights If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you’ve provided. You can also ask that we erase any personal data we hold, except for data we are legally or administratively required to retain. Where Your Data Is Sent Visitor comments may be examined through an automated spam detection service.