Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 27th July, 2025
Website: https://countriesnuggets.com
At Countries Nuggets, we are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data with transparency and care. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit or interact with our website.
1. Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information provided in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. This data helps us detect and prevent spam.
If you use the Gravatar service, an anonymized hash of your email address may be shared with Gravatar to check if you have a profile associated with it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture may be publicly visible alongside your comment.
2. Media Uploads
If you upload images to the website, we recommend that you remove embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can potentially download and extract location information from images displayed on the website.
3. Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your experience on our site. Specifically:
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If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience to avoid re-entering details for future comments. These cookies will remain for one year.
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A temporary cookie is set on the login page to check if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is discarded when the browser is closed.
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Upon logging in, several cookies are created to store your login credentials and screen display preferences:
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Login cookies: valid for 2 days (or 2 weeks if “Remember Me” is selected).
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Screen option cookies: valid for 1 year.
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If you log out, login cookies are removed.
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When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains the post ID of the article and expires after 1 day.
4. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, or articles) from third-party websites. This embedded content behaves in the same way as if you visited the third-party site directly.
These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, particularly if you are logged into an account on their platform.
5. Data Sharing
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email for security purposes.
6. Data Retention
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Comments: When a comment is submitted, both the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve future comments automatically.
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User Accounts: For registered users (if applicable), personal information provided in user profiles is stored. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators may also view and modify this data.
7. Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on our site or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You may also request the deletion of this data. Please note that certain data may be retained for legal, administrative, or security purposes.
8. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be screened through an automated spam detection service.