Privacy Policy

Who “we” are

We, as in me, Marko Saarelainen. A graphic designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. My portfolio (this very website you are reading right now) is located at: MarkoSaarelainen.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. The commenting of individual posts and pages is not in use on this site, you have only an option to send feedback.

Cookies

If commenting is at some point made available, whenever 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 a certain period of time, probably a 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.

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

No one. The third party content providers (see above): check out their privacy policy and terms of use. Most likely any embedded content seen here are most likely either YouTube videos or links to streaming services – and as we all know, these companies collect as much data from users as possible… and most likely share that data with their business partners.

How long we retain your data

If you send feedback, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up correspondence and/or react to possible abuse or spam.

What rights you have over your data

Since you cannot register or comment on the individual articles, we are not collecting your personal data. Other than the material you willingly provided us and is mandatory in order to even send feedback (name, email address and message). This data is kept saved for at least a year or as long as it is and I do not send this info on a .

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments and feedback are checked through Akismet, an automated spam detection service.