Privacy Policy

Who We Are

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and protect your personal information when you use our website. Our website address is: www.trac.group

Information We Collect

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the information entered into the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent details. This helps us detect and prevent spam.

We may also use an anonymised string generated from your email address (known as a hash) to check whether you use the Gravatar service. You can view Gravatar’s privacy policy at: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Once your comment is approved, your profile image (if connected to Gravatar) may be visible to the public alongside your comment.

Comment Cookies

If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is purely for convenience so that you don’t need to re-enter your details next time. These cookies remain active for one year.

If you have an account and log in to our site:

A temporary cookie will be set to confirm whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
Additional cookies will store your login information and display preferences.
- Login cookies last for two days.
- Display preference cookies last for one year.
- Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login active for two weeks.
- Logging out removes the login cookies.

Publishing Cookies

When you edit or publish an article, another cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not include personal data and simply records the ID of the post you edited. It expires after 24 hours.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Pages on this site may contain embedded content such as videos, images or articles. Embedded content from third-party websites behaves exactly as if you had visited that website directly.

These websites may:

Collect data about you
Use cookies
Implement additional tracking
Monitor how you interact with the embedded content, particularly if you are logged in to their platform

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our site. Analytics data is collected through non-identifying cookies and does not include personally identifiable information.

How Long We Keep Your Data

Comments:
Comments and related metadata are stored indefinitely so we can recognise and approve future comments automatically.
Registered Users (if applicable):
For users who create an account, we store the personal information provided in their profile. Users can view, edit or delete their information at any time (with the exception of their username). Website administrators can also access and update this information.

Your Rights

If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you may request:

A copy of the personal data we hold about you
That we delete any personal data we hold about you

This does not include data we are required to retain for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Where Your Data Is Sent

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