Effective Date: 10/10/2025
Website: https://sawaasyria.com
At Sawa Syria, your privacy is very important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our website and services.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://sawaasyria.com.
We are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about how we handle it.
2. Comments
When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
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/.
Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
3. Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
4. Cookies
- If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies last for one year.
- Visiting the login page sets a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- Logging in sets several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, screen options cookies last one year, and selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
- Editing or publishing an article saves an additional cookie that stores the post ID; it expires after one day.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content behaves as if you visited the other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content if you are logged in.
6. Who We Share Your Data With
- If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
- Data may also be shared with trusted service providers who assist in operating the website, but we never sell or rent your personal information.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to allow automatic recognition and approval of follow-up comments.
- Registered users’ personal information is stored in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their information at any time (except usernames). Administrators can also edit this information.
8. Your Rights
- You can request an exported file of your personal data we hold, including data you provided.
- You can request deletion of your personal data, except for data we are required to keep for legal, administrative, or security purposes.
9. Data Deletion Requests
If you wish to delete your account and all associated personal information, please visit our Data Deletion Page: https://sawaasyria.com/delete-account
Instructions are provided there to request deletion safely and efficiently.
10. Where Your Data is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Other data may be processed in secure servers provided by our hosting or service providers.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us at:
Email: info@sawaasyria.com
