Who we are
We are licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) as “Amateur Radio License” with the callsign W6WWR. Our website address is: https://w6wwr.com. Further information on the licensee is publically available through the
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This is intended to solely be a static page for visitors researching the Amateur Radio Callsign “W6WWR.” The owner/operator of this website has no desire, nor any intention, of purposefully obtaining or retaining any visitor information.
It is our understanding, however, that information may be obtained and retained by the WordPress application and the database used by this website solely for the purpose of assisting visitors to navigate this site. Additionally,visitor information may be verified for the purpose of preventing unwanted spam, hacking, etc. by third party providers of anti-spam and hacking prevention.
Regardless, there is the possibility that this website and its back-end may obtain visitor information and may retain it for some period of time, especially if the owner/operator of this website has or will backup this website to an offsite location.
If you have any concern about any of your information being obtained or retained, immediately discontinue visiting this website. We are unaware of any obtaining or retaining of personal information from a visitor to this website, however, you may contact the administrator of this page via email located in the contact information area if you would like the administrator to confirm that no personally identifiable information has been collected or retained.
Should you choose to contact the administrator through this pages contact information, be advised that you are willingly and knowingly providing your private information to the owner/operator of this website, and any such information will be retained at the discretion of the administrator.
Comments Posted on this website: At any point in time, should the owner/operator or administrator of this website determine they will allow comment posting, then visitors that willingly choose to leave comments on the site are deemed to agree to collection of data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Further, if we choose to uptilize third-party services for the purpose of Gravatar, An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Upload Security: If at some point, the owner/operator or the administrator determines permitting upload of images to this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. Although subject to change at our discretion, and without any further notice to visitors to this website, we have no current plans or intentions to permit visitors to upload any form of media.
Cookies
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites; “Hot-links”
Articles, postings, language, and comments on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.), or “hot-links” to other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website, and hot-links will take you to the actual site, usually by opening another browser window so that you can also remain on the W6WWR pages.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email, as well as any communication you may have with the administrator. Additionally, upon request of relevant law enforcement agencies, at our option, we may provide this information without requiring a court order or warrant. Our general policy is to cooperate with reasonable law enforcement requests.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Most likely, any information obtained (if any) will be deleted any time the website is hacked or vandalized and we have to rebuild the entire site. Additionally, at any point that our callsign is changed, revoked, or terminated by the FCC, we will abandon the domain W6WWR.com, and obtain a new website with a corresponding domain name.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Generally, any comments provided by email to be posted will be posted by the adminsitrator on this site. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.