Who we are
Community + Code is me, Chris Reynolds. For the remainder of this privacy policy page, where “we” is used, it’s really just me, Chris. One person. Your data isn’t shared with anyone else.
The website address is: https://communitycode.dev.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site the data collected is shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on the 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 (or until you delete them from your browser).
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.
An example on this site is YouTube. Episode recordings are posted to YouTube and the YouTube video embeds are added to Episode pages on Community + Code. If you are logged into YouTube already, YouTube will track your viewing independently if you watch the video from the Community + Code site.
How long we retain your data
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
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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
AI use disclosure
AI is used in many ways on this site, but most importantly for our Privacy Policy, your personal data is never shared with an AI. AI is used to assist in the development of site features, generation of content (including show notes, blog content and social media posts) and for internal use by me, the podcast host.
If you leave a comment on the site, that comment exists on the open internet and can be read and indexed by Large Language Models (LLMs).
If you are a guest on the show, I may use AI tools to:
- generate a transcript from the podcast recording
- read that transcript to generate show notes and call out potential links
- do research about you based on your social profiles or other public web pages
- generate or assist in generating copy for blog posts, social media posts, SEO metadata, etc
- parse through the recorded video files to extract still images
- parse through the recorded video file to identify short, meaningful clips to share on social media for promotion
AI is never given any information that does not already exist in the public domain, and your responses to the guest intake form or personal identifying information (like email address or IP address) are never shared with AI agents or tools.