Copyright & Privacy
Copyright
The copyright to the contents of this site is owned by Tom Scott-Redford, unless otherwise stated. Some content may be made available under Creative Commons licenses. Where this is the case, the license terms will be clearly displayed in the page footer.
© Tom Scott-Redford 2012 – 2023
Privacy
This website uses several third-party services to provide security, analytics, and performance features. This section describes these features and the personal data that they collect.
Jetpack
Automattic’s Jetpack service is used for a number of features on this site. Where personal data is collected, it is described below. ‘Site visitors’ means anyone visiting the site. ‘Logged-in users’ means anyone who logs into this site.
You can view the Automattic privacy policy in full at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
Brute Force Attack Prevention
Site Visitors
To block fraudulent login attempts, the following data is collected from site visitors who try to log in:
- Attempting user’s IP address
- Attempting user’s email address or username (which is entered during the login attempt)
- All IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user
This service tracks failed login attempts and sets a cookie (jpp_math_pass) that expires after 24 hours to show if a user has completed a captcha.
If your login attempt fails, your IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information will be saved by Jetpack.
Logged-in users
To block fraudulent login attempts, the following data is collected from logged-in visitors:
Everything collected for site visitors and:
- IP address
- WordPress.com user ID
- WordPress.com username
- WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL
- Jetpack version
- User agent
- Visiting URL
- Referring URL
- Timestamp of event
- Browser language
- Country code
WordPress.com Login
Site Visitors
No data is collected for this service unless you login to this site.
Logged-in users
To enable login using WordPress.com credentials, the following data is collected from logged-in users:
- WordPress.com user ID
- Local user ID
- User role
- Email address
- WordPress.com username
- WordPress.com display name
- WordPress.com-connected site ID
- Jetpack active/inactive status
- Jetpack version
- WordPress.com-connected site locale/language
- WordPress.com-connected site title
- WordPress.com-connected site icon and URL
- IP address
- User agent
- Visiting URL
- Referring URL
- Timestamp of event
- Browser language
- Country code
Site Statistics
Site Visitors
To provide anonymised usage statistics for this site, the following data is collected from site visitors:
- IP address
- WordPress.com user ID (if logged in)
- WordPress.com username (if logged in)
- User agent
- Visiting URL
- Referring URL
- Timestamp of event
- Browser language
- Country code
Additionally, post and page views, outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country are tracked. Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the JavaScript file used for Stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that the plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, JavaScript files, CSS files, etc.).
Logged-in users
No additional data is collected for logged-in users.
Cookies
The following cookies may be set. Not all cookies will be set in all cases.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expires After |
|---|---|---|
| jpp_math_pass | Record that the user has successfully completed a math-based captcha. | 24 hours |
| jetpackState[message] | Stores the state message passed back to the user across requests regarding feature activation. | Current session |
| jetpackState[error] | Stores the state’s error type passed back to the user across requests regarding feature activation. | Current session |
| jetpackState[error_description] | Stores the state’s error description passed back to the user across requests regarding feature activation. | Current session |
| jetpackState[module] | Stores the state’s feature name passed back to the user across requests regarding feature activation. | Current session |
| jetpackState[privacy_checks] | Stores features that may require additional privacy-related verification for private sites so that we can properly communicate these to the user. | Current session |
| jetpackState[php_errors] | Stores any PHP errors found just before PHP shuts down execution. | Current session |
| jetpackState[deactivated_plugins] | Stores the names of any standalone plugins that needed to be deactivated by Jetpack so that these can be communicated back to the user. | Current session |
| jetpackState[network_nag] | Stores a true value if Jetpack is network-activated, and the plugin needs to communicate to the user that they must connect it on each child site of the network. | Current session |
| jetpackState[display_update_modal] | Stores a true value if a modal containing information about the latest Jetpack release should be displayed in the Jetpack dashboard. | Current session |
| jetpack_sso_redirect_to | Allows for redirect URLs to be stored, which is necessary for Secure Sign On to work. | 1 hour |
| jetpack_sso_remember_me | Stores me values locally, rather than requiring them to be passed to WordPress.com each time. | 1 hour |
| jetpack_sso_wpcom_name_{HASH} | Remembers the WordPress.com display name to show on login page. | 1 week or cleared after successful login |
| jetpack_sso_wpcom_gravatar_{HASH} | Remembers URL of the Gravatar image to show on login page. | 1 week or cleared after successful login |
| jetpack_sso_original_request | Stores the URL of the original login request. | 1 hour |
| jetpack_sso_nonce | Used for nonce verification. | 10 minutes |
| eucookielaw | Remembers the state of visitor acceptance to the use of cookies. | 180 days |
| jp-visit-counter | Increments each time a visitor frequents a page containing this block – only used to control the block visibility. | 180 days |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | Indicates that the current user is logged in. | Current session |
| wp-settings-{time}-[UID] | Customising the view of the user backend and site interfaces | Current session |
Fonts
Noto Serif, Yatra, and Nunito fonts used under Open Fonts License:
https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL
Erode and Recia fonts used under ITF Free Font License:
https://www.fontshare.com/licenses/itf-ffl