Who We Are
Welcome to SoftwareStab! Our website address is https://softwarestab.com. We’re passionate about delivering quality software reviews, tech news, and insightful guides. To keep things transparent, here’s how we handle your data when you visit our site.
Comments
We love hearing from you! When you leave a comment, we collect the information you provide in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent to help with spam detection. If you’re using Gravatar, an anonymized string from your email (a hash) might be sent to Gravatar to check if you’re using their service. Gravatar’s privacy policy can be found here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible to the public alongside your comment.
Media
If you’re sharing images with us, a quick heads-up: avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract this data, so it’s best to keep it private if that’s your preference.
Cookies
We use cookies to make your experience better and more personalized:
• Comments: If you leave a comment, you can choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies for your convenience. These will last for a year, so you don’t have to fill in your details again.
• Login: When you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This one doesn’t hold personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login details and screen preferences. Login cookies last for two days; 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 are removed.
• Editing & Publishing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser, simply indicating the post ID of the article you just edited. This one expires after a day.
Embedded Content
Some of our articles may include embedded content (like videos or images). This content behaves exactly as if you were visiting the website it originates from. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, and track your interaction with the embedded content, especially if you’re logged in to that website.
Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email to help with security.
How Long We Retain Your Data
Your comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. This helps us recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically, making your experience smoother. For users who register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, though usernames cannot be changed. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have an account on SoftwareStab or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, with the exception of data we’re required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to keep our community safe and clean.
Contact Us
Have questions or concerns? Feel free to reach out to us at info@softwarestab.com
