Effective Date: 15/08/2026

Website: http://puristroots.com

Email: info@puristroots.com

At Purist Roots, we are committed to protecting your personal data and ensuring transparency about how your information is collected, stored, and used.

1. Comments

When you leave a comment on our website, we collect the data shown in the comments form. We also collect your IP address and browser user agent string to help us detect and prevent spam.

• Gravatar Service: An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you use it. You can view the Gravatar privacy policy at automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

2. Media

If you upload images to our website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download these images and extract any location data embedded within them.

3. Cookies

We use cookies to improve your user experience on Purist Roots:

• Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment, you can opt to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. This saves you from re-entering your details in the future. These cookies last for one year.

• Login & Browsing Cookies:

  • Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to verify if your browser accepts cookies (contains no personal data; discarded when you close your browser).

  • Logging in sets up cookies to save your login credentials (lasts 2 days) and screen display preferences (lasts 1 year).

  • Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login active for 2 weeks. Logging out clears these cookies.

• Content Editing: Editing or publishing an article saves an extra cookie containing the post ID. It contains no personal data and expires after 1 day.

4. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (such as videos, images, or external articles). Embedded content from third-party websites behaves exactly as if you visited the other site directly.

These third-party websites may:

• Collect data about you.

• Use cookies.

• Embed additional third-party tracking.

• Monitor your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you hold an account and are logged into that website.

5. Who We Share Your Data With

• Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your current IP address will be included in the reset email.

• Automated Security: Visitor comments may be processed through an automated spam detection service.

6. How Long We Retain Your Data

• Comments: Comments and their associated metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically without holding them in a moderation queue.

• Registered Users: For registered users, we store the personal information provided in their user profiles.

  • You can view, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except your username).

  • Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

7. Your Data Rights

If you have an account or have left comments on Purist Roots, you have the right to:

• Export Your Data: Request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any information you provided.

• Erase Your Data: Request that we delete any personal data we hold about you.

Note: This does not include any data we are legally, administratively, or securely obligated to retain.