Privacy Policy

Who we are

Discover Malmö is a website that is dedicated to informing you about current events, as well as information that you can’t find anywhere else on the Internet, since this website is run by locals.

If you are commenting

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.

Cookies

Cookies are yummy. See the café-section if you don’t believe us. 😍

Jokes aside, the kind of cookies we are using on this site aren’t the kind you can eat, but the kind that tracks your usage of Discover Malmö.

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.

The necessary cookies are just there to track which pages you are visiting to tell us more about your usage of our website.

They do not track any personal information.

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.

Who we share your data with

We share data with Google, which is owned by Alphabet Inc. and Pinterest, which is owned by Pinterest Inc.

Alphabet Inc.’s headquater is based in Mountain View, California, USA, and Pinterest in San Francisco, California, USA.

The information they will collect will be stored on servers in the United States of America.

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.

What rights you have over your data

If you 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 will be checked through an automated spam detection service.

All your data will be stored in your local device, as well as on servers located in the United States of America.

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