Privacy Policy
Effective Date: December 8, 2025
1. About This Website
The website address is: https://shlomosblog.com.
This site serves as the personal digital journal of Shlomo Bar-Ayal.
2. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, the system automatically collects the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in 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/.
3. Media
Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. If you upload images to the website (for example, via comments), you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.
4. Cookies
This site uses cookies to ensure functionality and improve user experience. A cookie consent manager (CookieYes) is employed to allow visitors to control their preferences.
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies last for one year.
- Login Cookies: If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when the browser is closed.
- Consent Cookies: The cookie consent manager sets a necessary cookie to remember your privacy preferences (accepted or rejected categories) so you do not see the popup banner on every page load.
- Embedded Content Cookies: Third-party content (such as YouTube videos) may set its own cookies.
5. Embedded Content & Social Media
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.
This website primarily uses YouTube to host video content. These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
Additionally, this site includes Social Media Sharing buttons. Interacting with these buttons may allow third-party social networks (such as Facebook or X) to collect IP data or set cookies to facilitate the sharing process.
6. Analytics
This website uses WP Statistics to analyze traffic. This tool is configured to process data anonymously. Browsing data is not sold to third parties.
7. Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
8. Automated Spam Detection
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service (such as Akismet).
9. Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data held about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request the erasure of any personal data held about you. This does not include any data required to be kept for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To exercise these rights, please use the contact information below.
10. Contact
For privacy-specific inquiries, the site owner may be contacted at:
shlomosblog.contact@proton.me