--- title: "Privacy Policy" url: "https://tabella.org/english/privacy-policy/" lang: "en" description: "Who are we Our website address: https://en.tabella.org. Publishing Board of Tabella is the council that maintains the Website. It also acts as the decision-maker for the Website, publishes the new articles and issues, an…" site: "Tabella English Archive" --- # Privacy Policy ## Who are we Our website address: https://en.tabella.org. Publishing Board of Tabella is the council that maintains the Website. It also acts as the decision-maker for the Website, publishes the new articles and issues, and edits the new articles. (refer to https://tabella.org/english/the-team/). Listed under the title “Tabella Editors” are those who function as the “Publishing Board of Tabella” and also responsible for editing the articles submitted to the Website. ## Why we collect private information ### Comments When visitors leave comments, we collect the data indicated in the comment form, the IP address, and the browser information text in order to help the effort of locating unwanted comments. An anonymised string formed from your e-mail address (also known as hash) may be provided to the Gravatar to see whether you use the service or not. Privacy policy of the Gravatar can be found in this address: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Your comment, after confirmation, will be made visible to the public with your profile picture. ### Media If you upload visual material to the Website, you should avoid visual materials embedded with the location data (EXIF GPS). Website visitors can download and extract any location data embedded in the visual material of the Website. ### Contact forms You can use the Contact Us form if you wish to reach out to Publishing Board of Tabella . Once you fill this form (or send an e-mail directly to info@tabella.org) your name, e-mail address and the content of the e-mail will be sent to an e-mail address only accessible by the “Tabella Editors” and used only for replying to the received e-mails. After replying to the received e-mails, data you have sent to us (your name, e-mail address, and content) will remain in our e-mail address indefinitely. Reason for this indefinite storing is to be able to reply to the e-mails in a correct and controlled manner. ### Join us forms and submitted articles If you wish to have one of your articles published on Tabella, or wish to become a regular writer in Tabella, you may use the “Join Us” form. You send us the following data by fulfilling this form: your name, your e-mail address, your age, your “describe yourself” content, and whether you wish to be a regular writer or not, alongside with your sample article. This data is thereafter sent to an e-mail address to which only Tabella Editors has access and kept there indefinitely (even if your submission is rejected). Reason for this is to keep the possibility of future reassessment of previously decided submissions. All of the data provided, especially the sample article, by you are accessed for the purpose of assessment by one of the Tabella Editors. If your submission is accepted, data you have provided will be accessible by the Tabella Editors. Reason for this is to allow for editing and preparation of the data before publishing. After your article is published, all of the data you have provided (your sample article submission and “describe yourself” content after editing) will be kept in the Website’s database. Your name, your edited “describe yourself” content, your published edited article, and your e-mail address will be publicly accessible on the Website. However, your age will be publicly displayed and only used for the assessment of your submission. Thereafter, if you become a regular writer, you can send your new articles before the next issue to Tabella editors via e-mail or other means. As mentioned before, all the articles you send will be accessible to the editors for the purpose of editing. These (edited) articles will be kept indefinitely in the Website’s database, as mentioned previously, or kept on a platform only accessible by the editors. At the same time, when you become a regular writer, you will be required to provide a picture of yourself. This picture will be publicly displayed on the Website and will be kept indefinitely as long as you do not ask for its removal. ### Cookies If you leave a comment on our Website, you may choose to save your e-mail address and your website in cookies. These cookies are meant to make usage more convenient: if you register, you will not be asked to fill in your information again when you decide to leave another comment. These cookies will last for a year. If you visit our log in page, we will set a cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies or not. This cookie does not contain any private information and will be discarded once you close your browser. When you log in, we will set up some cookies to save your log in information and choice of screen display. Log in cookies are kept for two days, whereas choice of screen display cookies are kept for a year. if you select “Remember me” option, your logged in status continues for two weeks. Once you log out, your log in cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be registered to your browser. This cookie does not contain private information and only shows the text identity of the article you have edited. It expires after one day. For more information on our cookie usage, please refer to our [Cookie Policy](https://tabella.org/english/cookie-policy/). ### Embedded content from other websites Articles on this website may contain embedded material (e.g. videos, pictures, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites will behave as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites can collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and, if you have an account and you have logged in on this website, can monitor your interaction, including your interaction with the embedded content. ### Analysis Tabella uses WordPress.com Stats statistics collecting tool to analyse how many views any page receives. This tool uses the visitor’s IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), the web browser that is used, address of page that is visited, which web page you have been directed from to our website, time of visit, language of the web browser, and your country code. However, we (website owner) do not have access to any of these data via the tool. For instance, we (website owner) can see that a specific post has 285 views, but we cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature. ### Social media sharing buttons Posts on Tabella contain some buttons which facilitate sharing the post on social media sites. Each of these official sharing buttons load content directly from its service in order to display the button as well as information and tools for the sharing user. As a result, each service can in turn collect information about the sharing party. ## Who we share your data with In order for some features of our Site to work, we share your data with some third-party service providers. These service providers and why we share your data is as follows: [Automattic](https://automattic.com/): data is shared in order to power the statistics gathering/analysis tool "WordPress.com Stats". Please refer to the section titled "Analysis" within this page for more details about what is shared. [Jetpack](https://jetpack.com/): Used to analyse the effect of WordPress.com Stats tool on site performance. For more details on what data is shared, please refer to the "Analysis" section. Also, the images sent to us by our users (e.g. author photos sent by the authors or images sent alongside posts), may be served to you from Jetpack's CDN in order to give you better performance. Therefore, this data may be shared with Jetpack's CDN servers. To get more information about this feature (including privacy information) please click on [this link](https://jetpack.com/support/site-accelerator/#privacy). Some social media service providers (Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Tumblr): When official sharing buttons are active on the site, each button loads content directly from its service in order to display the button as well as information and tools for the sharing party. As a result, each service can in turn collect information about the sharing party. For more information, please refer to the "Social media sharing buttons" section. User-submitted images (e.g. author photos sent by the authors or images sent alongside posts) may be transmitted to image compression servers in the United States and stored there for up to 30 days. We serve some files and images on our website from the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN) instead of our own servers. Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA (User Agent information, e.g. which web browser you are using), referrer (which website you were referred from to our website), Location, and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the Stackpath CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found [here](https://www.stackpath.com/legal/privacy-statement/). ## How long we retain your data If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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. If you send us a message, either through the "Contact Us" form or by directly e-mailing info@tabella.org, the data you send us (your name, e-mail address, and your message) will be stored in our e-mail account inbox indefinitely. We want to store your data indefinitely in order to ensure we have responded to your message correctly and appropriately. When you send us a post for publication, either through the "Join Us" form or if you are writing regularly and send us a post to be published in our next issue, the data you send us (your name, e-mail address, your age, your short biography, how often you want to write, and a sample post) will remain indefinitely in our e-mail inbox or another platform which all Tabella editors have access to and/or our database. To get more information about why we keep your data indefinitely, please refer to the "Join us forms and submitted articles" section. ## 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. If you contact us, either through the "Contact Us" form or by e-mailing info@tabella.org, then you send us some data (for more information, please refer to the "Contact forms" section). If you request that we remove the data you have sent us while contacting us, then we will remove them. If you apply for authorship with us using the "Join Us" form, you send us some data (for more information, please refer to the "Join us forms and submitted articles" section). If your application has been unsuccessful, you can request that we remove all the data we hold that was sent with the form. If your application has been successful, and your post has been published on our website, you can request that we remove your e-mail address, your biography, and your author photo (all of which are publicly displayed) both from our records where it is privately held and our website where it is publicly shown. You can also request the removal of other information which was sent with the applicationg form that are not publicly displayed (for example your age). However, the post you have sent with your application form (and all the other posts you have sent us if you become a regular author with us) as well as the author name associated with your post(s) will be stored indefinitely on our website as these are a part of our issues. Nevertheless, you do not lose your right to publish your post in other platforms by sending it to us. ## Where we send your data Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. As mentioned in the "Analysis" section, we send some of your data to Jetpack, Automattic, and WordPress services for statistics gathering. All our Site's data is stored in the servers of our hosting provider Bluehost. As a result, All data sent to our Site and all data stored on our Site are stored in Bluehost's servers. As a result of the social media sharing buttons we use on our website, some social media services can collect some data about you when you use our website. Please refer to the "Social media sharing buttons" section for more information. The images sent to us by our users (e.g. author photos sent by the authors or images sent alongside posts), may be served to you from Jetpack's CDN in order to give you better performance. Therefore, this data may be shared with Jetpack's CDN servers. To get more information about this feature (including privacy information) please click on [this link](https://jetpack.com/support/site-accelerator/#privacy). User-submitted images (e.g. author photos sent by the authors or images sent alongside posts) may be transmitted to image compression servers in the United States and stored there for up to 30 days. As mentioned in the section "Who we share your data with", we may be serving some files and images from Stackpath's Content Delivery Network (CDN). The section also mentions that as we are using this service, some of your information may be stored on Stackpath servers for 7 days. In addition to this, since some of the content available on our website (which may also include personal information about our users and authors, as well as our posts) is served from Stackpath's CDN, they are sent to Stackpath's servers. You can read Stackpath's privacy policy [here](https://www.stackpath.com/legal/privacy-statement/). ## Our contact information If you have any questions about our privacy policy, you can contact us by e-mailing info@tabella.org