About Theory Of Pat

Data tracking and other privacy myths

Who We Are – An Odd Thing To Say

Since we really don’t know who we are, this theory is the exploration.  

We are a party of one human individual who acknowledges the parade of peanut galleries in charge of our brain.   

The brain never stops thinking.  Think about that.  What do we think about?

It’s not all grocery lists and deadlines.   We entertain thoughts, process input, fold, spindle and mutilate one form of thought or other within a blink of an eye 10,000 thousand times a day…

What is the capacity?

Unbenownst to other shadows, who understand, we pontificate, reveal, ridicule and speak our minds about vices, vexes, virtues amid the chaos of life.

And now on to the boring bit…

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments – which never happen.  No, honestly we have maintained websites over 25 years and no comments arrive.  That is power babe, when what we say is so profound that no rebuttals necessary.  

When visitors refuse to leave comments on the site we collect the data anyway, in our fertile imagination as shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection – because we really don’t understand how websites work these days and have zero clue where you are coming from.  Some external machine does the collecting, we have no say.

Ok, whatever you say.  It’s a government requirement

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 we don’t allow people who don’t leave comments to leave on this website

If you upload images to the website that you refuse to comment upon, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included because we don’t know what the hell that means and you will confuse the shit out of Control. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website and if we catch you republishing with out attribution or making money off our efforts…General Kala will make mincemeat out of your finances.  ( and she’s done it!)

Contact forms

Cookies WTF – who doesn’t have cookies

If you don’t leave a comment on our site you may as well opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies.  We don’t care.  We don’t look at them.  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.  Really?  We thought they never die. We suspect this is a lie. 

If you visit our login page that we don’t have, something in the system will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies.  (There are browsers that don’t accept cookies?  FBI? CIA?  Russian Bots?  This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.  We doubt this as well.

When you log in to the page that does not exist, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.  Feel more comfortable now?

Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year.  LOL 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.  These writers are real comedians.

If you edit or publish an article, which we won’t allow, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser.  Isn’t this fun?

This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.  LOLOL

More LOL

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

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data – hell if we know

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 (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 – zip, nada, it’s all on facebook or in the hands of the Chinese 

If you have an account on this site which we don’t allow, or have refused to comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, which we have no idea where it is located, including any data you have provided to us, facebook or the Chinese. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you and we’ll let you know if and when we locate said personal data. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes – wtf?  Burn baby burn, that’s how we keep records.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.  Fuckers.

No idea what this other stuff is about. Take your best guess.

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Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

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