This personal blog is hosted as wiert.me and wiert.wordpress.com and operated by wordpress.com under the [WayBack] premium plan (you can compare plans at their [WayBack] pricing page).

They administer the social interactions on this blog:

• likes
• comments
• sharing posts on other social media
• contact form

Their privacy policy at [WayBack/Archive.is] en.support.wordpress.com/automattic-gdpr (you can view the history of it at github.com/Automattic/legalmattic) explains what information they collect, and how to exercise your rights, for instance:

 

• Request access to your personal data;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
• Request that wordpress.com limit their use and processing of your personal data; and
• Request portability of your personal data.

 

While operating, wordpress.com collects cookies which are documented at [WayBack] en.support.wordpress.com/cookies which you can configure through the cookie-widget banner at the bottom of each blog page as per screen-shot below. For more information on which cookie is set, please see the [WayBack] en.support.wordpress.com/cookie-widget page.

From what wordpress.com collects, I can see only the below information on social interactions through this blog, but do not store it myself, nor share it on other media:

• Likes:
  • Your name and (if you entered a URL), that URL.
• Comments:
  • Your name, the IP address you posted from and (if you entered an email or URL), that email address URL.
• Sharing posts on other social media:
  • None
• Contact form:
  • Your name and email, the message you wrote to contact me and (if you entered a URL), that URL.

I cannot remove likes or your sharings of posts on other social media, but I can remove comments. If you want a comment removed, please contact me through the contact form.

While writing this page, WordPress.com was still working in finalising GRPD compliance. Contact them at wordpress.com/help/contact if you have more questions, or leave a message through the contact form.

–jeroen