(Most of this text is derived from the sample text given with this WordPress Installation.)
Who I am
This is a personal blog maintained by me, a Linus Xu.
The website address is: https://lxzx.my.to, optionally with /wordpress after this (transient 302 in the backend as required).
Direct access over the public IP address will return a 421, partially to deter trivial scanning/crawling efforts. Due to certain configurations, direct IP connections should now be intentionally dropped at the server level.
Results for non-login users may be cached by WP Super Cache to optimize performance.
Note that I do not control the parent domain my.to. This is a domain provided (indirectly) by FreeDNS to park subdomains in, and I am extremely grateful for its continued operation and maintenance.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site I 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.
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.
Currently all cookie-related configurations are unchanged from what the default WordPress installation and the subsequent plugins originally put in place, though this may change in the future as I keep refining this site.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites should behave 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.
Note that embeds to some sites may run into obstacles due to IP range or vendor associations. I have not set up anything CORS related yet, but may do so in the future should need be.
Who I share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. I haven’t set up mailing from or to this server yet, and I recall that the cloud service provider does not allow outbound mail anyways.
Other access/action/error logs as generated by various daemon processes (php-fpm, httpd, systemd, etc.) may be kept at the filesystem level, accessible only to me and possibly (but hopefully not) the cloud service provider.
I may, at my own discretion, take excerpts or segments of the data to other public or private discussions. Common scenarios include where I share interesting content coming from myself or visitors, and when I need an explicit record of a happenstance on this website. I pledge that data retained in this way will never be used in a non-private context without appropriate censoring, and will only be used to the minimum extent necessary.
How long I retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on my website (if any), I 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.
All logs are subject to automatic rotation, and may be purged at irregular intervals (that is, manually invoked rather than over a cron job or service). The purge defaults to retaining only the latest two weeks of logs, though I may decide to keep parts or the entirety of some logs for a longer time for any purpose, usually related to the administration of this site (tracking access patterns of a certain IP address or range over time, for example). I pledge that data retained in this way will be disposed of once I am certain they are no longer needed or relevant.
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 I hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that I erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Whilst I believe the aforementioned points should cover all concerns with your data, if there is anything you need me to address on this matter, do reach out so that we can sort it out.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Parts or the entirety of the data may be transferred across the Internet, but only to other devices of my personal possession, for administration and/or security purposes such as archival or backup. The transfers, if any, will take place over a secured channel such as SSH or TLS/HTTPS.
Contact Information
I run this site entirely by myself so all relevant questions should just be directed at me. For now my email should be available in the security.txt of this site, and I am looking into how to properly put it into other more public-facing aspects of this site.