User Agreement
By visiting and staying on this site you agree to play nice with the site and others. No hacking, spam, abuse, nastiness, or dickish behaviour. If you are having fun and so is everyone else, the chances are you are doing it right.
Any information you provide to the site you, by implication, grant all necessary rights and so forth for us to store the data, do whatever seems reasonable with it, and show it in any way that seems fair and proper.
By intention, I aim to never share personal information. That said, do me a favour – for safety’s sake please only share information you don’t mind other people knowing. That way, in the worst case it is still no big deal. I’m only one bloke doing his best.
Privacy Policy
I take privacy seriously (on account of not being a dick). Any information you choose to share on the site will not be sold, shared with third parties, or otherwise distributed.
I loathe spam. I’m not too fond of email if I am honest. The only emails you will get will be automated ones used to maintain your account and stuff.
In theory, you should be able to unsubscribe to system emails. If that does not work, shout loudly and I will help you have no unwanted emails. You don’t want to read them, and I don’t want to write them.
Cookies
For reasons that make no technical sense, I have to ask you if you accept cookies and tell you what cookies are set.
The cookies we use are as follows:
- Whatever is needed for you to log in and run an account.
- Whatever else WordPress might set that I will ignore out of sheer laziness.
- See below for details
If you don’t like the cookies at Matrix Dreams you can tell your browser to block them. How much will work after that is anyone’s guess. No support will be offered. To learn how to block cookies consult your favourite search engine’s help pages.
Rewards System (Pocket Change)
When you create an account we assign it a more or less random number. By we, I mean, the computer running the website gives your account a number. That number means nothing to anyone other than the code that runs things. This pseudo-random anonymous number is what gets passed on the third-party sites when you click a link for rewards in the Pocket Change section. Later, they will let us see a report of the numbers connected to each transaction they will honour. We take that report, feed it back into our computer and let it work out who the rewards go to. It is a bit more technical than that and requires Matt, our admin, to do a bunch of unpaid work but the important thing is that those third-party sites get no useful data from us at all. Your privacy is entirely safe.
And now all the legal stuff
Keep reading you really want the cold hard facts with minimal sarcasm.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://matrixdreams.com
Matrix Dreams (hereafter, the site) is run and maintained by Matt. He’s a bloke from the UK who likes making websites.
Content submissions
A work is any creation that meets the minimum standard for copyright in the UK.
Any work that you submit to use, you retain your copyright for. In submitting a work, you assert that you have the right to do so. You offer us an irrevocable royalty-free non-exclusive transferable perpetual worldwide license to store, share, display, modify, publish, create derivative work from, and use in any media or format.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site 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 anonymised 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
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
Data you put into contact forms will be seen by Matt and anyone who Matt can rope into helping him run the site. Only put stuff you are happy Matt and his (hopefully) team will see.
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
This site uses Google Analytics to figure out what you love so I can do more of that.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
I’m not in the business of sharing user data. Rest assured I am too lazy to do anything with it and even if I wasn’t, I like to treat people how I want to be treated which means no sharing of your stuff.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also 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
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
We have zero use for your contact details aside from maybe an email address for automated stuff like account creation. We will do our best to keep things confidential but this is the Internet and there are bad people trying to do bad things. If given the chance to share your contact information or add it to the site, do so only if you are happy for others to see it. That way you never have to worry.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Your data is stored on a secure server run by 20i.com. We keep all software up to date through automated methods and manual checking. Which means it is about as safe as it is going to get.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In the event of a breach, we promise to act like headless chickens swiftly followed by letting you know. It has never happened to any site I run as far as I know.
What third parties we receive data from
If we set up third-party authentication we probably will get name and email or something from them. By we, I mean the software that runs the site. I’m not interested in your data.
What automated decision-making and/or profiling we do with user data
We use spam-protection systems that we trust to keep your data safe. That said, only share stuff you don’t mind being public.
Profiling is used only to spot spam. I’m just too lazy to do anything else.
