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

When visitors leave comments on our 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 created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service. The privacy policy of Gravatar is available here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience, allowing you not to refill your details on future comments. These cookies last for one year.

When visiting our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded upon browser closure.

Upon logging in, several cookies are established to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, screen options cookies for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends your login for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.

Editing or publishing an article saves an additional cookie in your browser, indicating the post ID of the article just edited. It expires after one day.

Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from other websites. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content if you have an account and are logged in to their website.

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

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely, allowing us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. For registered users, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, but not their username. Website administrators can also view and manage that information.

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of your personal data or request that we erase it. This excludes any data we must retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Visitor comments may be monitored through an automated spam detection service to ensure site integrity.