Who we are?
Our website address is animeroot.com
We are a small indie media group
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. Our site does not host user uploaded content\media.
We use Youtube and Flicker for most of our large content, please see those sites for their policy.
Contact forms
We have a contact form if you would like more info please send us an email.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
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
Our Site collects page view and page click data on the back end. This data is not user specific but rather is general. The data is used to measure website load and traffic flow. The site also uses stats to determine which posts are most popular using this data.
Who we share your data with
We don’t share user data with anyone. AnimeRoot does not advertise nor do we share user stats or data. Some of the plugins for example our spam filter do collect minimum amounts of data to determine if you are posting spam this data is held by them see their policy for more info – https://automattic.com/privacy/
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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Any comments or user uploaded data is held on our hosted server in the WP database, this data only moves for monthly backups to our offsite secure backup. Again user data is not sold, transferred, shared, or sent anywhere.
Your contact information
Is only collected if you provide it to us, otherwise we don’t know it. Please let us know if you ever want it removed or changed.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Our website is password protected and databases are WP based password secured and maintained by our host. Username and passwords are stored with encryption.
What data breach procedures we have in place?
We Don’t store valuable user data or information, we don’t collect it. If Breached users will be notified and password changes all around.
What third parties we receive data from
We Don’t, no one owns us, we don’t own anyone , so you get the picture here.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Our Site collects page view and page click data on the back end. This data is not user specific but rather is general. The data is used to measure website load and traffic flow. The site also uses stats to determine which posts are most popular using this data.