Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://echoesreal.com

Comments

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

An anonymized string (hash) from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you’re using it. See the Gravatar privacy policy. After comment approval, your profile picture is visible to the public alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, avoid embedding location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract such data from images.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so 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 cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps you logged in for two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. It contains no personal data and simply shows the post ID of the article. It expires after one day.

Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense to display advertising on this website.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your visits to this and other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this and/or other websites.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
Alternatively, you can visit www.aboutads.info to opt out of third-party vendor cookies used for personalized advertising.

Learn more by visiting Google’s Privacy & Terms for advertising.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content—especially if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

Who We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This helps us recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.

For registered users, we store the personal information provided in their profile. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal info at any time (username cannot be changed). Site 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 may request an exported file of your personal data, including any data you provided.

You can also request that we erase your personal data. This does not include any data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Where Your Data Is Sent

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