Website Data Policy Summary

Who We Are

Our website address is https://bookshop.lk.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect data shown in the comments form, including the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string for spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check for profile picture usage.

Media

Uploaded images should avoid embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

When leaving a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year. Temporary cookies are set on the login page to determine cookie acceptance, and additional cookies are set upon login for saving login information and screen display choices.

Embedded Content

Embedded content from other websites behaves similarly to if the visitor had visited the other website, including data collection, cookie usage, and tracking interactions with embedded content.

Data Sharing

Your IP address will be included in the reset email if you request a password reset.

Data Retention

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely for automatic follow-up comment recognition. Personal information provided by registered users is stored in their user profile, editable or deletable by users. Website administrators can also access and edit this information.

User Rights

Users with accounts or comments left on the site can request an exported file of their personal data or request data erasure, except for data retained for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Handling

Visitor comments may undergo automated spam detection.