Who We Are
Our website, Altered Zones, is located at https://www.alteredzones.com. We are dedicated to bringing you the latest news and insights in sports, entertainment, finance, and technology.
Comments
When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser user agent string to help detect spam. An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. If your Gravatar is recognized, after your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment. For more information on the privacy practices of Gravatar, please visit the Automattic privacy policy at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Media
If you upload images to our website, you should avoid uploading images that include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract this data from the images on our site.
Cookies
Our site uses cookies to enhance user experience, maintain session details, and customize content based on your usage patterns. If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies, which simplifies future comments. Such cookies last for one year.
Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Upon logging in, we set several cookies to save your login information and display choices. Login cookies last two days, while screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
Editing or publishing an article stores a cookie in your browser indicating the post ID of the article you edited, which expires after one day.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you visited the other site. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Data Sharing
We do not share your data with third parties unless required by law, except for aggregated, anonymized data used for research and analysis. In cases of password reset requests, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Data Retention
We retain comment data indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. For registered users, we store personal information provided in your user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (username cannot be changed). Administrators can also view and edit that information.
Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account or have left comments on our site, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including the data you provided. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data is Sent
Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Information
For privacy-specific concerns or any further inquiries, you may contact us via our contact page.
Changes to This Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy periodically. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.