Privacy Policy for Lenkat

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://www.lenkat.co.za.

2. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the 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 (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public alongside your comment.

3. Media

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

4. Cookies

When you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience and last for one year.
If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie will be set to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, we set cookies to save your login info and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, screen options cookies last one year, and if you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser to indicate the post ID you edited. It expires after one day.

5. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content behaves as if you visited the other website directly.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the content, including if you are logged into that website.

6. Who We Share Your Data With

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

7. How Long We Retain Your Data

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
Registered users’ personal information is stored in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except the username). Administrators can also view and edit this information.

8. Your Rights

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold, excluding data required for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

9. Where Your Data Is Sent

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