Who we are
This is the personal website of M. Wong. Our website address is: https://mwongonline.com Contact email of site author is mwong[at]mwongonline.com, replace [at] by @. If you contact the site author by email, your email address and any information you provide in the email will be kept  by the site author. This is necessary so that the site author can respond to your query if required.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments
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.

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.

Cookies

When you  first  visit the homepage of this site, a Privacy and Cookies notice has been shown which states that this site uses cookies. If you continue to use this site, you agree to the use of cookies. The link in the Privacy and Cookies notice will show you the web page with more details about the Cookie Policy.

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.

Information we collect automatically from the site
The log files of web hosting will collect the following information automatically from the visitors: IP address, browser type, referring URL, the date and time of access.

Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves 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.

How long we retain your data
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.

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 we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact form
The submission data in the contact form is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). Your submission data may be kept for an infinite amount of time by the site author so that the site author can reference to it in case you make further queries in the future. If you do not want the site author to keep the submission data in the contact form, please indicate this in the contact form.

More details about privacy policy
If you would like to know more details about the privacy policy and how to control cookies, please click here.

The above privacy policy can be changed at any time without giving notice.