Privacy Policy
Who we are
Our website address is: https://discoverygeorgia.com
Cookies
- Comments: 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. These cookies last for one year.
- Login: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies (contains no personal data). When you log in, we set cookies to save your login info (2 days) and screen display choices (1 year). If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks.
- Editors: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie (no personal data) will be saved to indicate the post ID. It expires after 1 day.
Advertising and Third-Party Services
Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to discoverygeorgia.com and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Opt-out: Users may opt-out of personalized advertising by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com or https://www.aboutads.info
- Google’s Privacy & Terms: Detailed information on how Google collects and uses your data can be found here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Ezoic Services
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”) to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic employs a variety of technologies (cookies, tags, pixels) to optimize ad targeting. The following information may be collected and stored in a cookie:
- IP address
- Operating system type and version
- Device type and Web browser type
- Language preferences
- Hashed or encrypted email For more information, view Ezoic’s Privacy Policy: https://ezoic.com/privacy/
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Comments & Spam Detection
- Data Collection: When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
- Gravatar: An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service (https://automattic.com/privacy/)
- Automated Checks: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (videos, images, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
Data Retention and Rights
- Retention: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. For registered users, we store the personal information provided in their user profile.
- Your Rights: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, or request that we erase any personal data (excluding data kept for legal/security purposes).
- Password Reset: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Contact Information
For any privacy-related inquiries, please contact us at: discoverygeorgia.com@gmail.com