Privacy Policy

At Pho Saigon, safeguarding your privacy is a top priority. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information as you access our website or utilize our services. By using our services or accessing our website, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Who We Are

Visit us at: https://phosaigon.org

Comments and Interaction

When you comment on our site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymized string (also known as a hash) may be created from your email address and provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: Gravatar's Privacy Policy. If your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media Uploads

If you upload images to the website, avoid including location data (EXIF GPS) as it can be downloaded and extracted by others.

Cookie Usage

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.

Our login page sets a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies, and this cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Additional cookies are set to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days and screen options cookies for one year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. When you log out, these cookies will be removed.

Editing or publishing an article sets an additional cookie that does not store personal data but records the ID of the article you have edited, which expires after one day.

Embedded Content

Articles on our 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 if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Data Sharing

Your IP address will be included in the reset email if you request a password reset.

Data Retention

We retain comments and their metadata indefinitely to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For registered users, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. 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.

Your Data Rights

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.

Data Handling

Comments submitted on our site may be checked through an automated spam detection service, ensuring the integrity and safety of our site interactions.