This Privacy Policy pertains to ROVING PIANIST, a piano-oriented blog at https://www.rovingpianist.com (“The Site”).
User Profiles
ROVING PIANIST is a pro bono enterprise whose mission is to entertain and inform music lovers.
As part of our Privacy Policy, ROVING PIANIST does not require users to register (set up a User Profile) in order to access The Site. We don’t need to know anything about you, and we don’t want to spend time managing visitors’ personal information. We’d rather spend that time writing for you.
However a site visitor must have a User Profile to post comments. If you elect to set up a Profile (or to subscribe to site notifications) we store the information you provide.
As per our Privacy Policy, you can see, edit, or delete Profile information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit your User Profile.
ROVING PIANIST will not sell any User Profile information, and will only share it if legally required to do so.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on The Site, we collect the data in the comments form. We also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. This information helps us detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your Gravatar profile picture (if any) is visible with your comment.
Media
If you upload images to The Site, we recommend that you do not use images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can extract location data from images stored on The Site.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on The 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.
If you log in, we set up 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. When you log out of your The Site, we remove your login cookies.
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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, image) from other websites. Embedded content behaves as if the visitor has visited the other website. Be aware that such websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email that we send to the address associated with your Profile.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, we may retain that comment and its metadata indefinitely, This allows us to implement an automated comment approval process.
What rights you have over your data
If you created a User Profile on this site, you can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase such personal data. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
We may use an automated spam detection service to validate your comments.
ROVING PIANIST is a division of 908 Alliance LLC.