Mental Health Knowledge

Privacy Policy

Website: https://mentalhealthknowledge.com

Your privacy is important to us. This policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect the personal information of visitors to our website.

Information We Collect

When you interact with our site, we may collect the following information:

  • Comments: When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with IP addresses and browser user-agent strings to help detect spam.
  • Gravatar: An anonymized string (hash) of your email may be sent to the Gravatar service to see if you are using a profile picture. Gravatar’s privacy policy applies.
  • Media Uploads: If you upload images to the website, avoid embedding location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download images, but your personal location data is not shared.

Cookies

  • When leaving a comment, you may choose to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last one year.
  • Login cookies are temporary and last two days, while screen options cookies last one year.
  • If you select “Remember Me” when logging in, your session will last two weeks.
  • Cookies are used only to enhance your browsing experience.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on our site may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles from other websites. These behave as if you visited the external website directly. These third-party sites may collect data about you and monitor your interactions according to their own privacy policies.

Data Sharing

  • If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
  • We do not sell or share your personal data for marketing purposes.

Data Retention

  • Comments and related metadata are retained indefinitely to help moderate future comments automatically.
  • Registered users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except usernames. Website administrators may also view and edit user information.

Your Rights

  • You may request an export of your personal data.
  • You may request that we erase your personal data, except data required for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Security

  • Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
  • We take reasonable steps to protect your data, but no system can guarantee 100% security.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please reach out through our contact page.