Privacy Policy

Welcome to Open Space Mediation! This page outlines our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information when you use our website.

Information We Collect

Comments: When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data provided in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.
Gravatar Service: An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public.
Media: If you upload images to the website, please be cautious about embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.
Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience, eliminating the need to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. The duration of these cookies is one year.
Login Page: A temporary cookie is set on our login page to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Logged-In Sessions: When you log in, several cookies are set up to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login persistent for two weeks.
Article Editing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser, indicating the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images) that behaves similarly to if the visitor has visited the other website.

Data Sharing

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

Data Retention

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. User profiles for registered users store personal information which can be seen, edited, or deleted by the users and administrators.

User Rights

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of your personal data. You can also request the erasure of any personal data, excluding data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.