Who we are

We are RahlReviews, your place for unbiased, unfiltered, RAW reviews on the latest in gaming, TV, movies, & sports. Our website address is: https://rahlreviews.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

RahlReviews.com is a WordPress-based website. By default, WordPress does not collect any personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User Profile screen from registered users. However, some of our plugins may collect personal data, for reasons explained below. 

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.

Contact Forms

We ask for the user’s name, email address, and message content within our contact form.  In each case, RahlReviews collects such information only to the extent as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with RahlReviews. RahlReviews does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers

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.

Analytics

Like most website operators, RahlReviews collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. RahlReviews’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how RahlReview’s visitors use its website. From time to time, RahlReviews may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by providing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

RahlReviews also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blog. RahlReviews only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

RahlReviews uses Google Analytics, Google Inc.’s web analytics service. Google Analytics uses cookies, as described above. Google sends this information, including your IP address, to a server in the United States where they will be stored. Google uses the information to generate usage statistics for this site and for other internet-based services. Google also discloses the information to third parties, if required by legal claim. You can prevent the installation of cookies via a setting in your browser. However, not all features of the site may function properly afterward. By using this site, you agree that Google collects this information. Information about Google’s use of user’s privacy article, titled “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps,” may be found here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Who we share your data with

We do not share the data we have collected about you with other than Google, as described above.

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 (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

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, you can contact RahlReviews by e-mail. Send your questions to tanner@rahlreviews.com. If you wish to have your data deleted, this is also where you should send your request.