Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 22, 2026

Website: https://katiesora.com

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://katiesora.com. We operate in compliance with the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable local data protection laws in Portugal.

For any privacy-related inquiries or to exercise your data protection rights, you can contact us at: info@katiesora.com.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data under the following legal bases pursuant to Article 6 of the GDPR:

  • Consent: When you voluntarily leave a comment or sign up for our newsletter/communications.
  • Legitimate Interests: To ensure security, detect spam, and optimize user experience on our website.
  • Legal Obligation: To comply with administrative, tax, or security regulations.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string 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.

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.

Cookies

  • 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.
  • 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.

Who We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties.

International Data Transfers

If any personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure appropriate safeguards (such as EU Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent mechanisms) are in place to maintain GDPR compliance.

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 who 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

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right of Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): Request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.
  • Right to Rectification: Request corrections to inaccurate or incomplete data.
  • Right to Restriction or Objection: Restrict or object to the processing of your data under specific conditions.
  • Right to Data Portability: Request the transfer of your data to another controller.

This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@katiesora.com.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In Portugal, the competent authority is the CNPD (Comissão Nacional de Protecção de Dados).