Privacy policy

Comments on the blog

You can comment on the posts of our blog. The following supplements the privacy policy above for the comments. The controller is Lookeen GmbH (see Legal notice).

What is stored. The name you enter (a nickname is fine), your comment, the post, the time and, for a reply, the comment you reply to. Once we have approved the comment, the name and the comment are published with the date. We don't ask for your email address and don't store your IP address. After sending you get a link with which you can delete your comment; we only store an irreversibly encrypted (hashed) form of it.

Review and protection against misuse. Every comment is reviewed before it appears. Checks in our own system sort out obvious spam, for example a hidden form field that only programs fill in, a form sent within seconds, or many links; no data is passed to anyone else for this. The number of comments per visitor is limited: for this, your IP address is irreversibly hashed with a key that changes daily and counted in memory only. It is not written to disk, and the counts are deleted daily.

Moderation log. For every step (sent, approved, rejected, edited, deleted, reported) we log the time, the step and, for steps taken by our staff, who took it. The text of the comment and your IP address are not logged. The log is deleted after twelve months.

Purpose and legal basis. We process this data so that readers can discuss our posts and we can answer, and to protect the comments from misuse. The legal basis is our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Writing a comment is voluntary.

Retention and deletion. Published comments stay as long as the post is online, unless they are deleted. Spam and rejected comments are deleted after 30 days. Daily backup copies are kept for 30 days; a deleted comment is not restored from them. You can delete your comment yourself with the link you received, or ask us through the contact form to correct or delete it; please tell us the post, the name and the date.

Reporting a comment. With "Report" under a comment you can tell us about content that is unlawful or breaks the rules under the form. We store the reason and your optional note, but not who sent the report.

Comments from the previous blog. Comments published on our previous blog were taken over with name, text and date; their email addresses, IP addresses and website addresses were not. If you want your earlier comment removed, please let us know.

In your browser. The comments set no cookies and store nothing in your browser.