Privacy policy
UNDERSTAND YOUR USER EXPERIENCE
We are updating our Privacy Policy to keep in alignment of legal changes affecting your privacy. It is LCG responsibility to notify you of these changes so that you can understand and stay up to date on how and why your personal information is collected and processed by us.
Our update includes a new section for our European users explaining additional rights they now have to their personal data under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recently enacted by the European Union. We encourage you to review our updated Privacy Policy.
We recognize that protecting your privacy is our duty and essential to maintaining a lasting relationship. Our commitment to you is to protect personal information you have entrusted to us by ensuring that it is treated and used in a way that guards your privacy while still enabling us to effectively deliver and enhance our products and services for your benefit.
LCG team at lcgnow.com.
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.
Contact forms
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.