Our Privacy Policy

ForceMedic Privacy Policy

Below you will find our updated privacy policy that ensures you, your information, and your data is proctected.

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://forcemedicdesign.azurewebsites.net

Comments

We collect the data shown in the comments when visitors leave comments on the site. Also, we collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from users’ email addresses (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if users are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of the visitor’s comment, the visitor’s profile picture is visible to the public in the context of their comment.

Media

Should a user upload images to the website, we suggest they avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Any visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Users who leave a comment on our site may opt-in to save their name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for their convenience so they do not have to fill in your details again when they leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Additionally, users visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if their browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when users close their browser.

When users log in, we will also set up several cookies to save their login information and their screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If users select “Remember Me,” their login will persist for two weeks. If users log out of their account, the login cookies will be removed.

There will be an additional cookie will be saved in the browser for users who edit or publish an article. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article they just edited. It 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.

These websites may collect data about each user, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor user interaction with that embedded content, including tracking interactions with the embedded content if users have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who  Do We Share Data With?

If users request a password reset, their IP address will be included in the reset email.

How Long Do We Retain Data?

For users who 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.

Moreover,  we also store the personal information users provide in their user profiles for users that register on our website (if any). 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 Right Do You Have Over Your Data?

Furthermore, if a user has an account on this site, or has left comments, they can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about them, including any data they have provided to us. Also, users can request that we erase any personal data we hold about them. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Do We Send Your Data?

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