VCW Crater | https://vcw-crater.com | Last Updated: June 2026
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://vcw-crater.com.
This Privacy Policy explains how VCW Crater collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit or interact with our website. By using our site, you agree to the practices described in this policy.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form — including your name, email address, and comment content — along with your IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.
An anonymized string derived from your email address (a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have a profile image. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture (if any) will be visible publicly alongside 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.
Contact and Lead Forms
This site uses Forminator to power contact forms, surveys, and other input forms. When you submit a form, the data you provide (such as your name, email address, phone number, and message) is collected and stored. This data is used to respond to your inquiries and may be retained in our database.
Form submissions may also trigger automated email notifications via our Mailgun email delivery service. Mailgun processes the submitted data solely for the purpose of delivering those email notifications. Mailgun's privacy policy is available at: https://www.mailgun.com/legal/privacy-policy/.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year, so you will not need to re-enter your details the next time you comment.
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 set several cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days; screen options cookies last for one year. If you select "Remember Me," your login will persist for two weeks. When you log out, these login cookies are removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply records the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Additional cookies may be set by the following tools and plugins used on this site:
- Beaver Builder: Sets session-based cookies when you interact with the page builder interface (administrators and editors only). These contain no personal data.
- GTranslate: Sets a cookie to remember your language preference. This cookie may persist across sessions to maintain your selected language.
- Autoptimize: Does not set user-facing cookies but optimizes cached resources in a way that may interact with browser caching headers.
- Wordfence Login Security: Sets cookies related to two-factor authentication and login verification. These are security-only cookies and contain no personally identifiable information beyond what is required for authentication.
- Popups & Notifications: May set a cookie to record whether a user has dismissed or interacted with a popup, to prevent repeated display. These cookies contain no personal data.
Analytics and Performance
Autoptimize is used on this site to aggregate and optimize CSS, JavaScript, and HTML for faster page load times. While Autoptimize itself does not collect personal data, it may affect how third-party scripts (such as analytics tools) load and execute.
Translation Services
This site uses GTranslate to provide multilingual content. When you select a language, GTranslate processes your request and may collect your IP address and browser information for the purpose of serving translated content. GTranslate's privacy policy is available at: https://gtranslate.io/privacy-policy.
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 you had visited those websites directly. These third-party sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content — including if you have an account and are logged in.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
This site uses Yoast SEO to manage metadata, structured data (schema markup), sitemaps, and search engine visibility. Yoast SEO does not independently collect personal data from visitors, but it does generate sitemaps and structured data that may inform how search engines index and display your content.
Link Directory
This site uses a Link Directory plugin to maintain a listing of external links and resources. If you submit a link or resource to the directory, the data you provide (such as your name, email address, and URL) will be stored. This information is used to process, review, and publish your submission.
Popups and Notifications
This site uses a Popups and Notifications plugin to display announcements, opt-in forms, or marketing messages. If you interact with a popup — for example, by submitting your email address — that information is collected and may be used to send you communications. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time using the link provided in any message you receive.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell your personal data. We may share data with third-party services only as necessary to operate this website, including:
- Gravatar (Automattic): To display comment profile images.
- Mailgun: To deliver email notifications triggered by form submissions.
- GTranslate: To provide language translation services.
- Yoast SEO: Structured data is made publicly available to search engines.
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.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically, rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on the website (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.
Form submissions collected via Forminator are retained in the database until manually deleted by a site administrator.
Email and link directory submission data is retained as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, unless you request deletion.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site, or have left a comment, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact form on this website or by reaching out directly via the information provided on our Contact page.
Security
This site uses Wordfence Login Security to protect the login process with features including two-factor authentication (2FA) and login attempt monitoring. Wordfence may log IP addresses and login attempts for security purposes. These logs are used solely to protect the site and its users from unauthorized access. Wordfence's privacy policy is available at: https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Data submitted through forms on this site is transmitted via Mailgun for email delivery. Translation requests are processed through GTranslate servers. Login security events may be logged and analyzed by Wordfence.
Some of these services may transfer and process data outside of your country of residence. Where this occurs, data is handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, please contact us through the contact form on our website at: https://vcw-crater.com/contact.