Who we are
Exit the Narrative Social Network
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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.
Media cleaning is active to remove some of the information included with media uploads, but users must not rely on it.
Contact forms
This website contains different contact forms that request your information, this information is only stored on the website and sent to Exit the Narrative.
Cookies
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.
Analytics
Exit the Narrative does not track user analytics. Your interactions with the website are not recorded for tracking purposes.
Who we share your data with
Exit the Narrative does not share or sell your data to other companies. Exit the Narrative will keep all data internal and only accessible to those directly working for or with Exit the Narrative.
Exit the Narrative will comply with official government requests for specific user data when they are accompanied with the appropriate legal documentation.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, 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.
Private and group message attachments will be deleted after 365 days.
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
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Some visitor data may be checked through security services.
Your contact information
If you have an account on this site, or have filled out contact forms, your contact information is stored on this website and sent to Exit the Narrative.
Additional information
If you have an account on this site, the additional information you provided in your profile and during your usage of this website, are stored on this website.
How we protect your data
Exit the Narrative does not share access to your data. Exit the Narrative also uses various security products and techniques to keep your data safe.
What data breach procedures we have in place
Inform users by publishing a public article.
What third parties we receive data from
We don’t use data from third party sources apart from data related to security features.
We record and receive the data that other members upload to this website.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Members of the community can report other members. Automated suspensions will occur after different members have reported the same member.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
Each member is responsible for their actions while using this platform and must know the laws that regulate their actions.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Exit the Narrative will regularly collect your IP address. Especially when you register, submit a contact form, or login. Apart from browser collected information, like your IP address, the other personal data we collect will be the data you include in your profile information and in your usage of the website. None of this data is quantified or collected for reasons other than what is meant for it.
Profile Data
When you register for the site, you may be asked to provide certain personal data for display on your profile. The “Username” field is required as well as public, and user profiles are visible to any site visitor. Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the site administrator.
User information provided during account registration can be modified or removed on the Profile > Edit panel. In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility on a field-by-field basis to friends, logged-in users, or administrators only. Site administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users.
Activity
This site records certain user actions, in the form of “activity” data. Activity includes updates and comments posted directly to activity streams, as well as descriptions of other actions performed while using the site, such as new friendships, newly joined groups, and profile updates.
The content of activity items obey the same privacy rules as the contexts in which the activity items are created. For example, activity updates created in a user’s profile is publicly visible, while activity items generated in a private group are visible only to members of that group. Site administrators can view all activity items, regardless of context.
Activity items may be deleted at any time by users who created them. Site administrators can edit all activity items.
Messages
The content of private messages is visible only to the sender and the recipients of the message. With the exception of site administrators, who can read all private messages, private message content is never visible to other users or site visitors. Site administrators may delete the content of any message.
Cookies
We use a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, like joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted immediately after the next page load.
We use cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted after 24 hours.
When a logged-in user creates a new group, we use a number of cookies to keep track of the group creation process. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted either upon the successful creation of the group or after 24 hours.
WPML uses cookies to identify the visitor’s current language, the last visited language and the language of users who have logged in.
While you use the plugin, WPML will share data regarding the site through Installer. No data from the user itself will be shared.