Our Commitment to Your Privacy
At The Moment Mag, we’re dedicated to providing you with a valuable online experience while respecting your privacy rights. We understand that you trust us with your data, and we take this responsibility seriously.
What Data Do We Collect?
When you visit our site, we collect minimal data to ensure the smooth functioning of our services.
Commenting
If you choose to create a login account for commenting, we store your provided information, including:
- Email address
- Username (chosen by you)
- Profile picture (optional)
This information is used solely for commenting purposes and will not be shared with any third-party services.
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. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Social Login
We collect your public profile data only with your consent when you use Social Login to access our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, and social profile avatar. You can revoke this consent at any time from your profile page on our website or by sending us an email.
Facebook Comments
We embed the Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to comment on our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface. For more information, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
How Do We Use Your Data?
We use the collected data to:
- Authenticate your login credentials
- Allow you to comment on articles
- Store your profile picture (if chosen)
Do You Have Control Over Your Data?
Absolutely! As a user, you have the following rights:
- Request access to any data we hold about you
- Update or correct your stored information
- Delete your account and associated data (excluding any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes)
- Choose not to provide us with your email address
How Can You Exercise These Rights?
To exercise these rights, please contact us via email at privacy@themomentmag.com. We’ll respond promptly and assist you in the process.
Cookies
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 you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your 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. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be 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.
Third-Party Services
We use third-party services (e.g., Akismet Anti-spam) to help prevent spam comments. These services may collect data from your browser or device. However, we don’t share any personal information with these services.
Google Analytics 4 & Google Tag Manager
We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) in conjunction with Google Tag Manager (GTM) to understand how visitors interact with our site. GA4 collects anonymized data about pages visited, time spent on site, and other website usage information. This helps us improve our content and overall user experience. You can learn more about GA4’s privacy practices here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Third-Party Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
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 if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Changes to Our Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. If changes are made, we’ll notify registered visitors via email and update our policy page accordingly.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding your data, please don’t hesitate to contact us:
Email: privacy@themomentmag.com
Website: https://themomentmag.com/