Esterior Network Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 10/9/2021

Who We Are

All sites run on Esterior Network, aka “esterior.net,” are operated and administered by Kirsten “omgfloofy” Miller. The sites included on this domain are:

Endless History – https://www.esterior.net
The Geofront – https://geofront.esterior.net
Delicious Crack no Kiseki – https://kisekicrack.esterior.net
Eidenyaku – https://eidenyaku.esterior.net
omgfloofy’s Corner – https://blog.esterior.net

While Kirsten Miller has an administrative account on all of the above websites, each site utilizes a unique member lists, and have its own set of moderators and administrators.

The following WordPress themes are used on the esterior.net sites:

Endless History – MagBook
The Geofront – Lekh
Delicious Crack no Kiseki – Twenty Fourteen
Eidenyaku – Twenty Sixteen
omgfloofy’s Corner – Ribosome

These themes are confirmed to be GDPR compliant and do not require any additional notation.

What personal data we collect and why

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.

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.

Contact Forms

Contact forms are powered by JetPack. Please read the section on Automaticc to get their privacy policy.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

The sites on esterior.net utilize a plugin called Shortcodes Ultimate as well as its paid-for plugin. Shortcodes ultimate utilizes dynamically driven symbols and icons pulled from the FontAwesome library. This area is gray area of the GDPR rulings, and once the plugin allows for this, the FontAwesome library should be directly integrated onto esterior.net.

Site Security

As the sites run on esterior.net all operate on the WordPress system, hacking and malicious attempts to the site are frequent. As a result, IP addresses are logged via StatCounter and WordFence to help block particular malicious bots that have attacked the systems on each of the sites.

You can read more on the WordFence privacy policy here.

Analytics

The sites on esterior.net utilize Google Analytics for tracking user data for a variety of reasons, including finding what articles are best received and what updates to the site systems work best, based on browser data. This information in generally anonymous, only providing regional data at most for identification.

To read more about the Google Analytics privacy policy, click here.

To opt out of Google Analytics tracking, download the opt-out plugin here.

Automattic Plugins

All sites on esterior.net utilize plugins developed by Automattic. These plugins include Jetpack by WordPress.com and Akismet Anti-Spam. These plugins utilize connections to WordPress.com for a variety of analytical and anti-spam needs.

You can read more on the Automattic privacy police here.

Super Socializer

Super Socializer is a plugin used on Geofront only

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

Twitch Sidebar

Twitch Sidebar is a plugin used on omgfloofy’s Corner only

Twitch sidebar utilizes login data if you’re already logged in to the twitch.tv domain. To read twitch.tv’s privacy policy, please follow the link here.

User Submitted Posts

Delicious Crack no Kiseki utilizes user submissions.

The user submission system on Kiseki Crack is based off of of your WordPress account- thus the account information used is already stored to the site when you create your account. User submitted posts does not track IP data, and will require your consent to submit content.

WordPress Download Manager

To track downloads, Endless History, Geofront, omgfloofy’s Corner, and Eidenyaku all use the Download Manager plugin.

The following information is tracked via a cookie placed by this plugin:

  • Whether or not the current visitor unlocked a package/download.
  • The imported files of a directory when bulk importing files from a server dir.
  • Remembers the package/download data of an unlocked package/download for current user.
  • Used to track user registration.

esterior.net does not have user tracking enabled for Download Manager and does not save this information. The cookie that is used for this plugin is deleted when you close your browser.

Google reCAPTCHA

Endless History, Geofront, and Delicious Crack no Kiseki use this plugin to utilize Google reCAPTCHA to prevent spam. This plugin does not track data, but it does have a whitelist to log IPs that do not need to use the option. There are currently no IPs in the white list.

StatCounter

Endless History has a StatCounter widget on the site for tracking traffic and retaining old views/hits numbers from when the site originally launched. To read more about StatCounter’s privacy police, click here.

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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we 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.

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.

How we protect your data

Your data is protected via standard WordPress protections. This domain is carefully monitored and protected with regular direct interactions to ensure that all plugins are updated and any that are not will be cycled out and replaced with those that are still seeing active development.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event of a data breach, the first thing that will be done is to investigate the cause of the breach, and to notify all users both via email and via the twitter account for Endless History, located here.