Who We Are
Our website address is: http://theresearchmind.com. The Research Mind is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency in how your personal information is handled. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you interact with our website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine if you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from images uploaded on the site.
Cookies
Comments
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you do not have to re-enter your details when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Login Page
When you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Logged-In Users
When you log in, we set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences:
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Login cookies last for two days.
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Screen options cookies last for one year.
If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out will remove the login cookies.
Article Edits and Publications
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires 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 exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These external websites may:
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Collect data about you.
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Use cookies.
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Embed additional third-party tracking.
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Monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged into that website.
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Otherwise, we do not share your personal data with third parties except as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
How Long We Retain Your Data
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Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
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Registered Users: For users who register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for changing their username. Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request:
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An exported file of the personal data of the personal data we hold about you, including any information you provided to us.
- Deletion of any personal data we hold about you, except data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you have further questions or require additional information about our privacy practices, please contact us via the details provided on our Contact Page.