Effective Date: January 2, 2026
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.themillerscloud.com. This site is a personal blog where we share insights on technology, systems, and global events.
Information we collect and why
- Comments: When you leave a comment, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and your browser user agent string to help us filter out spam. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public next to your comment.
- Media: If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract that data from images on the site.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you don’t have to fill in your details again later. These cookies last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to see if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Advertising and Third-Party Cookies (AdSense Disclosure)
We use Google AdSense to serve ads when you visit our website. Google uses cookies to serve these ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites on the internet.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
- Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Analytics
We may use third-party tracking tools, such as Google Analytics, to monitor and analyze the use of our website. These services use cookies to track traffic data. This helps us understand how visitors interact with our content so we can improve the site experience.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (like videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you visited that other website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically. For users that register on our website (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username).
Your rights over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold. This does not include any data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.