Privacy Policy

Comments are welcomed and encouraged on SiberianCedarLand.com, because  you, the reader, are a very important part of what makes this community so special. I am dedicated to maintaining this website as a place for open and respectful discussion, so there are a few things that I do not allow, and instances when comments will be edited or deleted. All comments are subject to these terms of use and any commenter in violation of this policy may be banned at my sole discretion.

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.
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.

Gravatar: For easiest commenting, consider signing up for a Gravatar. This will allow your comment to be approved faster, and allow your picture to automatically display next to your comment. It is an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) 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.
What To Do If Your Comment Does Not Appear: Please be patient. All comments are held for moderation and approval, and that sometimes takes time. Please do not submit the same comment again unless you think your original comment was not submitted the right way the first time.

Comments Guidelines
Comments that don’t contribute to the conversation, spam, promotional in nature, or intended for back-link purposes will be deleted and the author banned from future commenting ability.
Before asking a question in the comments, please read through all of the post’s prior comments to see if your question has already been asked by another reader and answered. If the same or similar question was previously answered, your comment will most likely not be responded to.
By way of example, but not as limitation, you agree that when commenting, you will not:

• Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
• Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
• Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.
• Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer.
• Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless the article and comments specifically allows such messages.
• Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.
• Download any file posted by another user that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
• Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
• Restrict or inhibit any other user from commenting.
• Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses and mailing addresses, without their individual consent.
• Violate any applicable laws or regulations.