Who We Are
Simpsonville Community Guide (Simpsonville.net) is a community-centered website that shares information about Simpsonville, South Carolina and maintains a transparent privacy policy. Our website address is https://simpsonville.net.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Simpsonville Community Guide, we collect the data from the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam. Additionally, we may provide an anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. You can view the Gravatar service privacy policy here. After we approve your comment, your profile picture, if available, will appear alongside your comment.
Media
If you upload images to Simpsonville Community Guide, please avoid including images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Otherwise, other visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Simpsonville Community Guide uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience:
- If you leave a comment, you can opt in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies, so you don’t have to re-enter this information when leaving another comment. These cookies last for one year.
- If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data, and we discard it when you close your browser.
- When you log in, we set up several cookies to save your login information 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 persists for two weeks. However, if you log out, we remove these cookies.
- Additionally, if you edit or publish content, we save an additional cookie in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and only indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles in the Simpsonville Community Guide may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, and articles). This embedded content behaves as if you visited an external website. Therefore, these sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged into that website.
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, we include your IP address in the reset email.
How Long We Retain Your Data
We retain comments and their metadata indefinitely. This is to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users who register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. Furthermore, all users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
Simpsonville Community Guide Privacy Policy
Your Data Rights
If you have an account on Simpsonville Community Guide or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. However, this does not include any data we must retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
We may check visitor comments through an automated spam detection service to ensure a safe and secure user experience on Simpsonville Community Guide.