Who we are
This is a personal website about physics and reality. It is managed by one person only. See the about page for more information.
Our website address is: https://probingphysics.com/
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Disclaimers
Short stories and narratives
This website contains stories, narratives, and examples that are intended to clarify certain concepts in physics. These stories range from fictitious scenarios to real-life stories.
Some biographies have been altered in some posts for dramatic and clarification purposes. These fully fictionized and partly real-life inspired stories are solely for clarification and story-telling purposes.
They are not intended in any way to defame or besmirch anyone’s reputation. Any resemblance in location, names or events is purely for dramatic purposes.
We take full responsibly for our narratives and please do not hesitate to reach out to us in the case of any offense caused by our stories.
Contact forms
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 that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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 1 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.
Analytics
We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyse our Website.
Google Analytics
Google analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services such as Adsense, which uses the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. This is of great help to the Website in terms of keeping track of our progress on the web.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics Javascript from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy policy of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: [link]
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
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.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Links To Other Sites
Our Website contains links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We advise you to review their Privacy Policy as well. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for their content or practices.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We recommend that you review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, or opinions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by visiting our Contact Us page.