Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://countrydiscover.com.

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.

Bloodlines & Borders (browser game)

Our website offers a free browser game, Bloodlines & Borders, at https://countrydiscover.com/bloodlines-and-borders.html. You can play without creating an account and without providing any personal data.

To let you continue a game later, the game saves your progress in your browser’s local storage on your own device. This data contains only game information (such as the country you play, the in-game date and your game decisions). It is not sent to us or to third parties, and we cannot see it. It stays on your device until you start a new game or clear your browser data.

To load the game, your browser retrieves program libraries from jsDelivr (cdn.jsdelivr.net) and fonts from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com). When this happens, your IP address and browser information are sent to these providers, as is technically necessary to deliver the files. See the privacy policies of jsDelivr and Google.

The game contains a link to countrydiscover.com. Following it is your own choice.

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.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

When you play Bloodlines & Borders, your browser loads files from jsDelivr and Google Fonts, which receive your IP address as described above. We do not share any game data with third parties.

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.

Game progress for Bloodlines & Borders is stored only on your own device and is never retained by us. You can delete it at any time by starting a new game or clearing your browser’s site data.

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.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Embedded content from other websites

Analytics

We use Google Analytics, provided by Google Ireland Limited, through the Site Kit by Google plugin to understand how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited and how long visitors stay. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies and processes data such as your IP address (shortened), device and browser information, and your interactions with our pages.

Analytics cookies are only placed after you give consent through our cookie banner. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time via the cookie settings link at the bottom of our website. Google may process data outside the European Economic Area under the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. More information: Google Privacy Policy and How Google uses information from sites.