Privacy Policy

Who Are We?

Take A Nerdy Picture is an online community for people to share their nerdy (or other) photos for ratings by others.  We don’t allow comments, only ratings.  Our website address is: https://takeanerdypicture.com.

What Personal Data We Collect And Why:

Comments – Blog Section:

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 this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can view and potentially extract any location data from images on this website.

Contact Forms:

We may collect basic information (provided by you on the form) and other basic information, including IP address, browser type, platform, etc.

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.

Embedded Content From Other Websites:

Blog 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:

We collect basic visitor geography, IP address, browser type to help improve our services.  This data is only used internally by the Take A Nerdy Picture team.

Who We Share Your Data With:

We do not share your data is anyone, however, you might get an e-mail here and there from Take A Nerdy Picture promotions.  These are not SPAM nor 3rd party emails and we don’t send anything out too often.  You will receive standard notifications on the progress of your photo submissions, approvals, denials, ratings, etc.

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.  Visitors to the website may be checked through Google ReCaptcha to cut down on bots and bad actors.

Your Contact Information:

We do not collect, nor need your full contact information.  Your name and e-mail address are the bare requirements for this site.  Take A Nerdy Picture is FREE – we don’t need any payment information or credit cards.

Additional Information:

Any photos uploaded to this site should be considered public for public rating.  The photos should NOT be copyrighted works of others.  You should only upload photos you own or have permission to upload.  Violators may be suspended from the site.

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