Privacy Policy

Who we are

This web­site is oper­at­ed by the team behind Das­S­cience, a sci­ence-focused blog blend­ing per­son­al insights, sci­en­tif­ic com­men­tary, and news report­ing. Our web­site address is: https://dasscience.com.

What personal data we collect and why

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.

Cookies

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.

Cookie Policy

Our web­site uses cook­ies to enhance your brows­ing expe­ri­ence and to ana­lyze site traf­fic through Google Ana­lyt­ics.

What are cook­ies?
Cook­ies are small text files placed on your device by your web brows­er when you vis­it a web­site. They help the site remem­ber infor­ma­tion about your vis­it, such as your pref­er­ences or whether you are logged in.

Cook­ies we use:

• Essen­tial cook­ies: These are nec­es­sary for the web­site to func­tion prop­er­ly, such as login ses­sions or secu­ri­ty-relat­ed cook­ies.
• Ana­lyt­ics cook­ies: We use Google Ana­lyt­ics cook­ies to col­lect anony­mous infor­ma­tion about how vis­i­tors use our web­site. This helps us improve the site’s con­tent and func­tion­al­i­ty. IP anonymiza­tion is enabled to pro­tect your pri­va­cy.

Cook­ie dura­tion:
Cook­ies set by Google Ana­lyt­ics typ­i­cal­ly last for up to 2 years. Ses­sion cook­ies and oth­er func­tion­al cook­ies may expire soon­er.

Your choic­es:
You can con­trol or dis­able cook­ies through your brows­er set­tings. Addi­tion­al­ly, our cook­ie con­sent ban­ner allows you to accept or reject non-essen­tial cook­ies like Google Ana­lyt­ics before they are set.

For more details about Google Ana­lyt­ics and pri­va­cy, please vis­it: 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.

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.