Privacy Policy
This is the personal academic website of Ali Çağan Kaya.
Website address: https://alicagankaya.com
This page explains what information may be collected when you visit this website, leave a comment or guestbook entry, or contact me through the contact form.
Who operates this website
This is a personal website. Only I publish posts and pages on this website. Public user registration is not available.
Contact form
If you use the contact form on this website, the website may collect the information shown in the form, such as your name, email address, subject, and message.
This information is used only to receive and respond to your message, manage correspondence, prevent spam or abuse, and maintain website security.
Your contact form message is not displayed publicly.
Comments and guestbook entries
When visitors leave comments or guestbook entries on the site, the website may collect the information shown in the relevant form, such as name, email address, website URL, and message.
The visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string may also be collected to help detect spam.
Guestbook entries and comments may be displayed publicly after moderation. Your email address will not be published.
If you choose to provide your email address, I may use it to reply to your message or manage your entry.
You may contact me if you would like your comment, guestbook entry, or related personal information removed.
Akismet anti-spam
This website uses Akismet to help detect and prevent spam in comments, guestbook entries, and contact form submissions.
Akismet may process submission-related data, such as the submitted content, name, email address, website URL, IP address, and browser user agent, for spam detection.
Akismet’s privacy information is available here: https://akismet.com/privacy/
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to understand general website traffic, such as which pages are visited, how visitors find the site, and general usage patterns.
Google Analytics may collect information such as device information, browser information, approximate location, pages visited, and interactions with the website.
This information is used only to understand readership and improve the website. It is not used by me to identify individual visitors personally.
Google’s privacy information is available here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Jetpack
This website uses Jetpack for WordPress features such as site statistics, security, performance, or related website functionality.
The data processed by Jetpack may depend on which Jetpack features are active on the website.
Jetpack’s privacy information is available here: https://jetpack.com/support/privacy/
Cookies
This website may use cookies for basic WordPress functionality, security, spam prevention, analytics, Jetpack features, contact forms, and embedded content.
If you leave a comment or guestbook entry, you may be able to opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for convenience, so that you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment or entry. These cookies may last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages and posts on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, posts, maps, articles, or code from other websites.
Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited those websites directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, especially if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who your data is shared with
I do not sell personal information.
I do not intentionally share personal information except where necessary to operate, secure, maintain, and improve this website.
Some information may be processed by services used to operate this website, including the web hosting provider, WordPress, Contact Form 7, Google Analytics, Jetpack, Akismet, other WordPress plugins, and embedded-content providers.
Visitor comments, guestbook entries, and contact form submissions may be checked through automated spam detection services.
How long your data is retained
Comments and guestbook entries may be retained indefinitely unless you ask for them to be removed.
This allows approved comments or entries to remain visible and helps with moderation.
Contact form messages may be retained as long as needed for correspondence, record-keeping, spam prevention, or website security.
Technical logs, spam-prevention data, security records, and analytics data may be retained for limited periods depending on the hosting provider, WordPress, Google Analytics, Jetpack, Akismet, Contact Form 7, and other services used on this website.
Your rights
If you have left comments, guestbook entries, contact form submissions, or otherwise provided personal information through this website, you may request to receive a copy of the personal data held about you.
You may also request that this data be corrected or erased.
This does not include data that must be kept for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Contact
For privacy-related requests, please use the contact form on this website and include “Privacy request” in your message.
Updates
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time if the website changes or if new tools are added.