Who We Are

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

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, plus the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data included. Visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. Login cookies and screen options cookies may also be set when you log in.

Embedded Content

Articles may include embedded content such as videos, images, or articles. Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited the other website directly.

These websites may collect data, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

Data Retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.

For registered users, we store personal information provided in the user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time except their username.

Your Rights

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 personal data we hold about you, excluding data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where We Send Your Data

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

Contact Forms and Business Inquiries

When you contact us through a form, we may collect your name, email address, website, message, and the purpose of your inquiry. This information is used to respond to your request, review submissions, manage advertising inquiries, and protect the site from spam.

Tool Listings and User Accounts

If you register, submit a listing, edit a listing, or leave a review, we may store account details, listing information, contact details, uploaded media, review content, and related metadata needed to operate the directory.

Security and Spam Protection

We may use CAPTCHA, spam detection, firewall tools, analytics, caching, and security plugins to protect the website, forms, accounts, comments, and directory listings.