Who we are
I am Daniel Konczyk and this website address is: https://astarfromtheotherside.com. I am the sole author and administrator on this website. No other persons have access to my account, and there are no administrative accounts for anyone else.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Contact forms
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.
This website also uses a cookie to save the last viewed comic, so You can continue reading straight away when visiting the home page.
Other than that this website should not be storing any cookies, unless it comes from embedded content and plugins, which we have no control over.
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.
Analytics
This website might be using Google Analytics – consider that Google will potentially store your IP, browser and system data. You can read more about Google Analytics privacy policy here:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
Who we share your data with
Spam filters, protection services and other plugins used on this website might also potentially use your data.
Analytics services like Google Analytics and similar also collect your data.
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.
Data stored by other services we have no control over, therefore it is best to assume they can store it indefinitely.
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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service, malware protection filters. Same applies for contact forms or any place on this website where You can input your data for any reason.
How we protect your data
We tend not to store any sensitive data (passwords etc.).
Data stored by 3rd parties are outside of our protection.