Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. The Lamar Foundation is committed to respecting your privacy concerning any information we may collect while operating our website, https://lamarfoundation.org/, and other sites we own and operate.

We request personal information only when it is necessary to provide a service to you. We collect this information fairly and lawfully, with your knowledge and consent. We also explain why we are collecting it and how it will be used.

We retain the information only as long as necessary to provide the requested service. We protect the data we store with commercially acceptable means to prevent loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

We do not share any personally identifying information publicly or with third parties, except as required by law.

Our website may link to external sites not operated by us. We have no control over the content and practices of these sites and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their privacy policies.

You have the right to refuse our request for your personal information, understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Your continued use of our website signifies your acceptance of our privacy practices. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, feel free to contact us.

Our website address is: https://lamarfoundation.org/.

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, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

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 your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media:

If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies:

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so 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 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 set several cookies to save your login information and 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, 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). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the 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 embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with:

How long we retain your data:

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, 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.

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 we send your data:

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