Welcome to iStaffRecruits! We’re delighted that you’ve chosen to explore our services at iStaffRecruits. Your privacy and trust are paramount to us. This policy outlines how we handle your personal information.

Comments

When you comment on our site, we collect the details you input in the comment form. We also collect your IP address and browser user agent string, which aids in spam detection.

For Gravatar users, an anonymized string from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to Gravatar to verify usage. Upon approval of your comment, your Gravatar profile picture is publicly visible next to your comment.

Media Caution

If you upload images to our site, please avoid including location data (EXIF GPS). Be aware that visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.

Cookies

  • Comment Cookies: To enhance your experience, we offer to save your details (name, email, website) in cookies. These last for one year.
  • Login Cookies: We set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. Additional cookies help remember your login and screen preferences for two days or one year, depending on your settings.
  • Editing Cookies: Cookies saving the post ID of the article you edit expire after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

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 with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Data Sharing

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

Data Retention

  • Comments: We store comments and their metadata indefinitely for recognition and approval of follow-up comments.
  • User Profiles: For registered users, we store personal information provided in their user profile. Users can manage their information at any time, except for changing their username. Administrators can also view and edit this information.

Data Rights

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Automated Spam Detection

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service for security and convenience.