Welcome to Cretorama.com, your leading online destination for exploring the myriad wonders of Crete. Our mission is to guide you through the beauty and grandeur of this magnificent island with creativity and insight.
Interaction Data
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Cretorama.com, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
If you’re a Gravatar user, 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. For further details, visit Gravatar’s privacy policy.
Media
For your privacy and security, if you upload images to the website, 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.
Cookies: A Bite-Sized Primer
Cookies enhance your experience by saving your details, thereby preventing you from having to re-enter information on subsequent visits. For example:
- If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These stay for one year for your convenience.
- When you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies, which contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- We use longer-term cookies for logged-in users to remember login details and 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. Log out, and login cookies will be removed.
- Editing or publishing an article results in an additional cookie 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 one day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites. This content behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.
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.
Data Sharing: Who Sees Your Info?
Should you initiate a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email, ensuring a secure process.
Data Retention: The Memory Bank
Comments left on the site are retained indefinitely, facilitating easier recognition and approval of any follow-up comments. 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.
Your Digital Rights
Should you have an account on Cretorama.com, or have left comments, you may request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. Additionally, you can 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.
Data Movement: The Path Your Data Takes
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to ensure the integrity of our site’s interaction data and to safeguard our community against irrelevant or harmful content.
How We Protect Your Data
At Cretorama.com, protecting your data is paramount. We deploy a range of security measures, including but not limited to data encryption, secure server configurations, and regular security audits, to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of your personal information.
Privacy Policy Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be reflected here with an updated version and date. Continued use of our site following notice of such changes will indicate your acknowledgment and agreement to the updated terms.
Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us.
Last Updated
This Privacy Policy was last updated on December 25, 2023.
