Last updated: July 17, 2026
Your privacy matters to us. DataSciencePlus.com runs on a few simple principles:
- We don’t ask for personal information unless we truly need it to run the site.
- We use cookieless website analytics — it sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser.
- We don’t sell or share your personal information with anyone, except the minimal service providers described below or where the law requires.
- We keep personal information only as long as we have a reason to, and we give you tools to download or delete it yourself.
Information We Collect
Information you provide
- Account: username, email address, display name, and a password (stored hashed). This is standard WordPress account data.
- Author profile (optional): anything you choose to add to your public profile — bio, job title or degree, location, website, and social links (GitHub, X, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ResearchGate). You add these because they are displayed publicly on your author page; you can edit or remove them at any time.
- Comments: when you comment, WordPress stores the name and email you enter, the comment text, and your IP address and browser user-agent string (used for spam detection). Your email is never displayed publicly.
- Contact form: when you send a message via our contact form, it is delivered to us by email with the name, email address, subject, and message you provide.
- Legal records: when you register, we record the time you agreed to the Terms of Service. When you submit an article, we record your confirmation of the originality statement (account, time, and network address). If you delete your account, we record which article option you chose. We keep these records because they document agreements between us.
Information collected automatically
- Server logs: like virtually every website, our hosting provider and content delivery network keep standard web server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested, date and time). We use these only for security and troubleshooting.
- Password resets: if you request a password reset, your IP address is included in the reset email for security.
- Article view counts: we count how many times each article has been viewed. This is a single number per article — it is not linked to who viewed it.
- Cookies: we use cookies to run the site, not to track you across the web:
- If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies so you don’t have to re-enter them next time; these last one year.
- When you visit the login page we set a temporary cookie to check your browser accepts cookies (no personal data, discarded when you close the browser). When you log in we set cookies to remember your session and screen choices — login cookies last two days, or two weeks if you choose “Keep me logged in”; screen-option cookies last a year. Logging out removes the login cookies.
- If you edit or publish an article, a short-lived cookie stores only the post ID you just edited; it expires after a day.
- Your light/dark theme preference is stored in your own browser (localStorage) and never sent to us.
- Our analytics is cookieless — it sets no cookies at all (see below).
Analytics (cookieless)
We use StatCounter, a web-analytics service, to understand overall traffic — how many people visit, which articles are popular, and roughly where visitors come from. We run StatCounter in its cookieless mode: it sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. Like our own server logs, it receives your IP address and browser information as part of the page request in order to count the visit. StatCounter’s privacy policy: https://statcounter.com/about/legal/
We may, in the future, display advertising from third-party ad networks. If and when we do, those networks may set cookies to measure or personalize ads; that will only happen with your consent, and this policy will be updated to name them before any ads run.
Information from other sources
- Gravatar: author and commenter avatars are looked up on the Gravatar service using a hashed version of the email address. If you have no Gravatar, we simply show your initials. Gravatar’s privacy policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/
- Akismet: submitted comments are checked by the Akismet anti-spam service. The information collected depends on how Akismet is set up but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and the site URL, along with information the commenter provides such as their name, email address, and the comment itself. Akismet’s privacy notice: https://automattic.com/privacy-notice/
These are the only third-party services that process visitor data on this site.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, images, or interactive charts). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you had visited that other website — those sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including if you are logged in to that website.
How We Use Information
We use the information above solely to operate the Service: to run your account, publish your articles with attribution, display and moderate comments, respond to your messages, prevent spam and abuse, and comply with legal obligations. We do not use it for advertising or profiling, and we do not sell it.
Media Uploads
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download images from the website and extract any location data they contain.
How Long We Keep Information
Account and profile data are kept while your account exists. Comments and articles are kept while they are published. Contact messages are kept as ordinary email correspondence. The legal records described above (terms agreement, submission attestations, deletion choices) are retained as evidence of the underlying agreements even after an account is deleted. Server logs are rotated on our host’s standard schedule.
Your Rights and Tools
If you have an account, you can do all of this yourself from your profile page:
- Download your personal data — a ZIP containing your account data, profile details, and comments, in both readable and machine-readable form;
- Download your articles — every article you wrote, as standalone HTML files;
- Correct your data — edit your profile, email, and password at any time;
- Delete your account — permanently removes your login, profile, and personal data. You choose what happens to your published work: keep it with your name shown as plain text, keep it anonymously credited to “Former Contributor”, or delete it entirely. In every case your email, and other contact data are removed.
If you don’t have an account (for example, you only left comments), use our data request page to ask us to export or erase the personal data we hold about you. Enter your email there and we’ll send a confirmation link; once you click it, we process the request using WordPress’s built-in privacy tools. This does not include data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Lives
The site is hosted in the United States. If you access it from elsewhere, your information is processed in the United States under this policy.
Children
The Service is not directed to children, and accounts require users to be at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated date; your continued use of the site after a change constitutes acceptance of it.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data? Reach us via the contact page.