Virtue and Vigor Privacy Policy: Because We Respect Your Right to Be Left Alone
Welcome to Virtue and Vigor! We take your privacy seriously, but we also believe in keeping things lighthearted. Below, you’ll find the legally required bits about how we collect, store, and use your data, along with some reassurances that we’re not here to stalk you.
Who We Are
Our website address is: www.virtueandvigor.com. If you’re here, congratulations! You’ve found a site that cares about privacy almost as much as you do.
Comments: Speak Your Mind, but Know the Rules
When you leave a comment, we collect the information you enter in the comment form, plus your IP address and browser details. Why? Because the internet is full of spambots, and we like to keep things human.
Also, if you use Gravatar, an anonymized version of your email (called a hash) may be sent to them. If your profile picture pops up next to your comment, that’s on you—Gravatar’s privacy policy is here.
Media: What Happens on the Internet Stays on the Internet
If you upload images, don’t include location data (EXIF GPS). If you do, tech-savvy users might extract your coordinates and discover where you took that amazing sunset picture. Just saying.
Cookies: Yes, We Have Them (But Not the Delicious Kind)
- Leave a comment? You can opt to save your name, email, and website in cookies so you don’t have to retype them. These last a year—convenient, right?
- Visit our login page? We’ll set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. It disappears when you close your browser. Poof!
- Log in? We save some cookies to remember your login details and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days, screen preference cookies last a year. Choose “Remember Me” and you stay logged in for two weeks.
- Edit or publish an article? We save a cookie with the post ID. It expires in a day—short-lived, just like our patience for spam.
Embedded Content: The Internet Is Watching
Articles here may contain embedded content (videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves like a digital freeloader, tracking you just as if you’d visited that site directly. That means they may collect your data, use cookies, and even spy on your interactions. We don’t control them, so proceed with caution.
Who We Share Your Data With: Not Many People, but Sometimes We Have To
If you request a password reset, your IP address gets included in the reset email. We don’t share your data with shady third parties—no selling your info to get-rich-quick marketers.
Data Retention: We’re Not Hoarders, But…
- Comments (and their metadata) stay indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-ups automatically.
- If you register on our site, we store your provided data in your user profile. You can edit or delete your info anytime, but you can’t change your username (because continuity matters). Admins can see and edit your data, but they promise not to abuse that power.
Your Data, Your Rights
You can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. If you’d rather we forget you exist, you can ask us to erase your data (except for anything we must keep for legal or security reasons).
Where Your Data Goes: No Secret Lairs, Just Spam Filters
Visitor comments may pass through an automated spam detection service because nobody likes spam (unless it’s the kind in a can).
Final Thoughts: Your Privacy, Our Promise
We’re not here to snoop, sell your info, or bombard you with nonsense. This policy exists because laws like GDPR and CCPA say we have to spell it out. If you have questions, send us an email—but don’t expect us to sell your data in return for answering it.
Thanks for visiting Virtue and Vigor! Now go enjoy the internet responsibly.
