Website

Our website address is: https://joycegeneralstore.com

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information entered in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent to help detect spam.

An anonymized string derived from your email (a “hash”) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can potentially download and extract any location information contained in uploaded images.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies. This allows you to avoid re-entering your information on future comments. These cookies last for one year.

When you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when the browser is closed.

Upon logging in, we set additional cookies to store your login information and display preferences. Login cookies last two days, screen options cookies last one year, and if you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.

If you edit or publish an article, a cookie indicating the post ID of the edited article is saved for one day. This cookie contains no personal data.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content behaves as if you visited the original website directly.

These third-party sites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the content—especially if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Data Sharing

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data Retention

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments without moderation.

For registered users (if applicable), we also store the personal information provided in your user profile. Users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username. Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

Your Data Rights

If you have an account or have left comments, you may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you, including any information you have provided. You may also request that we erase your personal data, except for information we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked via an automated spam detection service.