Look, we run a homestead and manage a chaotic pack of working dogs. We do not care about your data, we are not building a secret profile on you, and we certainly are not selling your information to sketchy third-party brokers. However, because this website runs on modern server infrastructure, certain technical data gets processed automatically so the page actually loads. Here is exactly how that works in plain, clear English.

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://ttdk9.com. You can just call us the circus.

Comments

If you decide to leave a comment on our posts, we collect the data you type into the comment form. To keep bots and internet trolls from spamming our site, the system also logs your IP address and your browser user agent string.

If you use Gravatar for your profile picture, an anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be sent to them to check if you have an active account. Their specific privacy policy lives over at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once we manually approve your comment, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your text.

Media

If you are uploading images directly to our site for some reason, try to avoid uploading photos that have embedded location data (EXIF GPS) attached to them. Otherwise, clever visitors could theoretically download those images and extract your location coordinates. Let’s keep your privacy intact.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our yard logs, you can opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is strictly for your own convenience so you don’t have to re-type your entire life story every single time you want to chime in. These convenience cookies last for one year.

If you visit our backend login page, a temporary cookie will be set just to see if your web browser accepts cookies at all. It contains zero personal data and vanishes the second you close your browser.

When you log in to an account here, the system sets up cookies to remember your login info and screen display choices. Login cookies stay active for two days, and screen options stick around for a year. If you check the “Remember Me” box, your login stays live for two weeks. If you log out, those cookies are deleted instantly.

If you edit or publish an article here, a basic cookie logs the post ID of the piece you just worked on. It holds no personal data and expires after twenty-four hours.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Sometimes our posts will include embedded content like YouTube videos, social media clips, or images. Embedded content from external websites behaves exactly as if you hopped off our site and visited theirs directly.

That means those external companies might collect data about you, use their own cookies, embed extra third-party tracking, and monitor how you interact with that content—especially if you are logged into an account with that specific network while browsing our site.

Who We Share Your Data With

We do not share your data. The only technical exception is if you explicitly request a password reset for an account here; in that case, your current IP address will be included in the automated reset email to verify it was actually you making the request.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, that comment and its background metadata are kept indefinitely. This allows our backend system to automatically recognize and approve your future follow-up comments instead of holding them in a long moderation queue.

If any users register an account on our website, we securely store the personal information they provide in their user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your own personal information at any time (the only thing you can’t change is your original username). Our site administrators can see and edit that info too.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an active account here or have left comments in the yard log, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase every single bit of personal data we have on file. This does not include any background data we are legally, administratively, or securely obligated to keep.

Where Your Data Is Sent

To keep things clean, visitor comments are run through an automated spam detection service so we don’t get overrun by fake internet bots.