Privacy & Data Usage at MinneapolisHouses.org
Who We Are
Welcome to MinneapolisHouses.org, a community-driven platform passionate about the diverse and beautiful homes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We are not a real estate agency or brokerage, but a dedicated space for home enthusiasts to share, explore, and celebrate the unique residential architecture of our city. Our website address is: .
Comments
We encourage our community to leave comments and engage in discussions on our site. When you do so, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
For users of the Gravatar service, an anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be used to see if you are using Gravatar. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment.
User-Generated Content (UGC)
As a platform celebrating homes in Minneapolis, much of our content, including images, is provided by our users. If you upload images to the website, please be mindful not to include images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to protect privacy. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the site.
Cookies
Leaving a comment on our site allows you to opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. This means you won’t have to fill in your details again for future comments. These cookies last for one year.
A temporary cookie is set when you visit our login page to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Logging in triggers cookies that save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, screen options cookies for a year. If you choose “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
Editing or publishing an article also sets a cookie in your browser that contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on our site may include embedded content from other websites. This content behaves as if you visited the originating website.
These sites might collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with their embedded content, especially if you are logged in to those sites.
Data Sharing
Your IP address will be included in a password reset email if requested.
Data Retention
We retain comments and their metadata indefinitely. This facilitates automatic approval of follow-up comments, avoiding moderation delays.
For registered users (if applicable), we store the personal information provided in their profiles. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (username changes are not permissible). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.
Your Data Rights
You can request 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 data needed for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.