HR & VET Platform Web Site Privacy and User Data Policy

Who We Are

Welcome to the HR & VET Platform, your premier resource for advancing in human resources and vocational education and training. Our website address is: https://hrandvet.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection.

An anonymized string, known as a hash, may be created from your email address and provided to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. The privacy policy for the Gravatar service is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture becomes publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to our website, please refrain from uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Website 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 saving 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.

Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies, containing no personal data and discarded upon closing your browser.

Upon login, we set several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, while screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. Upon logging out, these cookies will be removed.

Editing or publishing an article sets an additional cookie in your browser, holding no personal data and simply indicating the post ID of the article you just edited, expiring after 1 day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Such content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.

Who We Share Your Data With

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

How Long We Retain Your Data

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically. For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile, which all users can see, edit, or delete at any time (username cannot be changed). 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 an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you’ve provided. You can also request the erasure of any personal data we hold about you, excluding 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.

This privacy and user data policy is crafted to ensure transparency and protect our users’ privacy and personal data. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.