This Privacy Policy was last updated on January 15, 2025.

Who We Are

We are the Hemet Heritage Foundation (“the foundation”) and we operate the Hemet Museum (“the museum”). Our website address is: https://TheHemetMuseum.org.

Comments

When you leave comments on the website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and user agent string (what browser you use) to help with 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.

Forms

When you use a contact form on the website we collect the data you enter and send it to the foundation or museum in an email. In addition, your IP address and user agent string (what browser you use) are sent to help with spam detection.

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. For more information, see Guarding Your Online Privacy below.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our website, 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 visit our login page, 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

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.

Please note that we cannot provide help or information about other websites. We suggest contacting the website owner or author directly. To find more information about any website’s host or domain registrar, you can use these tools:

Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell users’ personal information or personal data.

However, we must share any data we have when requested as part of a judicial, governmental, or legal inquiry, order, or proceeding when reasonably necessary as part of a valid subpoena, warrant, or other legally-valid request.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Rights in Specific Locations

Users who are in California have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). You can find information on the CCPA here: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.

Users who are in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You can find information on the GDPR here: https://gdpr-info.eu.

Guarding Your Online Privacy

This section contains privacy-related information you may find useful and is not part of our privacy policy.

To find out what information is stored in the EXIF data of your photo before uploading it to this website or others, you can use tools like EXIF.tools.

The U.S. Army Special Operations Command produces the SAFEGUARD Digital Identity Protection Toolkit (PDF) which contains a lot of useful information for guarding your digital identity. It has a section covering EXIF data removal (PDF) for Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS.