Privacy Notes
We don’t collect any information from you to provide access to this site, beyond what is necessary to serve the page (it’s a standard WordPress installation, and we don’t allow public membership at this time, so there’s nothing you have to sign up for). Your access to the site may be tracked by third party elements, including: Google fonts, Gumroad, PayPal.
We do standard web-logging, of course. This includes your browser info, referrer information, and IP addresses, which are retained for web traffic measurement and security reasons.
Supporting us on Patreon of course involves agreement to Patreon’s Privacy Policy.
Anything you voluntarily contribute to our project, whether through our website or not is subject to our Copyright and Licensing Terms, which may be summarized as requiring that you have the right to license the work to us and that you agree we may re-release it under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Version 4.0 (or later), International, with a handful of special exceptions for reference-only material.
The following explains basic privacy issues that apply to WordPress sites in general (this is closely based on boilerplate from WordPress).
Who We Are
We are Anansi Spaceworks, a United States based General Partnership, consisting of Terry Hancock and Rosalyn Hunter. Our primary activity at present is the “Lunatics Project” which is producing the “Lunatics!” series as a free-culture open-movie project. This may be regarded as a publishing “imprint” of Anansi Spaceworks. The URL https://lunaticsproject.org serves as the hub site for the Lunatics Project
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.
But note the copyright requirements for project submissions, described above. There are very limited circumstances under which you could legitimately upload media to our site, without them being subject to these terms. These include:
- User Avatar Photos (which are understood to be PR photo or images for you).
- Public Relations Photos (submitted to be used to represent you in credits and project presentations).
- Reference photos, expressly identified as such, and with a source and assumed license.
By default, however, you assert that uploads are yours to contribute and that they may be re-released by us under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, version 4.0 or later. So, please don’t upload anything you aren’t comfortable asserting this for.
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.
With Whom We Share Your Data
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
Note that login credentials for this site are limited to project contributors, and at present, only Terry Hancock and Rosalyn Hunter can post. So there is no profile information to be held.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.