Privacy Policy
Who We Are Welcome to Royal—your daily destination for royal news, historic accounts, and high-society narratives. Our website address is: https://royal.zululion.com.
Comments When you leave comments on Royal, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection. An anonymized string (hash) generated from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify if you use it (their privacy policy can be viewed at https://automattic.com/privacy/). Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes publicly visible alongside your comment.
Media If you upload images to Royal, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the site can download and extract any location data embedded within those images.
Cookies We use cookies to enhance your experience across our site:
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Comment Preferences: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again. These cookies last for one year.
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Session & Login: Visiting our login page sets a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies; it contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. Logging in creates cookies to save your login credentials (lasting 2 days) and display options (lasting 1 year). Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your session active for 2 weeks. Logging out removes these cookies immediately.
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Content Publishing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie storing only the post ID is saved in your browser and expires after 24 hours.
Embedded Content From Other Websites Articles on Royal may include embedded media (such as videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from third-party websites behaves in the exact same manner as if you visited those platforms directly. These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content—especially if you have an active account logged into their platform.
Who We Share Your Data With We protect your personal data and do not sell it to third parties. However, for security purposes, if you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How Long We Retain Your Data
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Comments: Comments and their associated metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
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User Accounts: For users registering on Royal, we store the personal profile information provided. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except changing their username). Site administrators also have access to view and edit this information.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data If you have an account on Royal or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase any personal data on file. This excludes data we are obligated to retain for administrative, legal, or security reasons.
Where Your Data Is Sent To ensure site security and prevent unwanted content, visitor comments are automatically filtered through an automated spam detection service.