Access on personal data is possible ...¶

1. locally, on your PC. Websites can read your cookies create user profiles.

toctoc_comments requires the OK of the user for storage of cookies containing personal data.

2. during transport of data between you and the server. Encryption of data protects data during transport. Encrypted data is hard to spy, data won't be transmitted as readable text

It's recommended to use a HTTPS server protocol for operation of toctoc_comments

3. accessing data stored on the server.

3a) Concerns about the transfer of your personally identifiable data to outside parties as well as the use of this data for so called marketing purposes must be clearly defined in the privacy policy of the website running the commenting system.

3b) When data is stored on the own server, referenced as "localhost" - then it is less interesting for not authorized or "secretly authorized" persons to query this data. Normally there's not much data and the data does not allow for example to build marketing profiles.

However, it might be interesting to spy at data in dedicated servers, server hosting mass data from commenting systems: DISQUS, WordPress and Yotpo maintain mass databases which enables the same big interest for this data like the databases of for example Yahoo, Google. GMX also do.

3c) Storage of data on external MySQL-servers offers bigger chances for unauthorized access to happen.

toctoc_comments does not save data on central servers. By default data is located on the web-server running the website.

4. by search engines: Storage of comments by search engines like Google or Bing is a problem in case these comments should disappear from the internet by whatever reason.

toctoc_comments protects comments from indexing by search engines.

5. Complete security

does not exist

toctoc_comments shows the status and recommendations concerning data protection (in the front end disclaimer).