Who we are
delve Magazine is an online arts and culture magazine based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It is subject to both Canadian and International privacy laws.
Visiting
Minimal personal information is collected from anonymous visitors who do not have posting privileges on the website. Our hosting services collect anonymized IP information used strictly for monitoring website traffic, including the Country of that IP address. This is strictly for collecting metrics and ensuring our content delivery network serves our website content from a server that is closest to them.
Posting
We do not collect any personal information of our visitors through a commenting system. Editors who have access to our administrative panel may have their personal information stored in a database that stores their credentials. Asides from someone’s name and email address, we do not collect any information that is not necessary for users to publish content on the website.
User-generated articles will feature an author block at the bottom of the page that indicates the author’s name and a short biography.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 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 in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
As we do not rely on any external services for this website to function, we do not send user’s personal information to any third party outside delve Magazine.