“Who Are Those Guys?”

We are the Pittsburgh Antique Radio Society, born in 1986, dedicated to preserving radio history, with an emphasis on broadcast radio. Our website address is: https://pittsburghantiqueradiosociety.org.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

 The login ID and password you supply to log in to this website is collected for the necessary purpose of allowing you to login again and recognizing you as a valid user in situations where the website needs to distinguish valid from invalid users.  As of this time, no personal profile information is requested or required for you to safely use this website.  

Articles and comments that may deliberately or inadvertently contain private or even potentially private personal information will be moderated and if appropriate, will be deleted from this website by the moderator solely at our discretion. We do our best to police the website but we cannot guarantee that nothing undesirable will never slip through our moderators and administrators.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our website 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 may be visible to the public in the context of your comment. But in general, we don’t use avatars. 

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.

Contact forms 

Contact form information is held only long enough to resolve the reason for your contacting us. No long term-record is kept of information supplied on contact forms or on those who submitted contact forms.  

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.

Analytics 

We do no analysis of user data either per-user or in-aggregate. We do not provide any analytical organization with access to any data held on this website. 

Who we share your data with

 Unless you follow links included in the articles on this site to another website, your data is never shared with anyone. As it says above… “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.”

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, 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 though in a practical sense, it is rarely seen and never edited. 

What rights you have over your data

You can 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 we send your data

Visitors leaving comments or completing our contact form comments are always validated through an automated spam detection service known as Google reCAPTCHA.

Your contact information

We protect your contact information to the best of our ability, and within the technical capabilities of a standard WordPress website. Please don’t put ANYTHING in your contact information that you would not put in your profile on any other non-commercial, public interest organization website. We cannot guarantee and we make no guarantees about the protection of your profile information.

In general, we never authorize the release of any club member or registered subscriber information.  We value the club’s relationship with you and we act accordingly to protect your information.

GOOGLE reCAPTCHA 

RQUIRED NOTICE: This site is protected by Google reCaptacha and so Google’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy also apply here.