The Intervenor is the official student publication of Colegio de San Gabriel Arcangel. This notice explains what personal information this website collects, why, how long it is kept, and what you can ask us to do with it.
Who is responsible
The Intervenor holds this information. Questions about it, and any request described below, go to the publication through its adviser at the College.
What is collected, and why
If you only read
You do not need an account to read anything here, and we do not ask for your name or your email address to do so.
When you open an article, the site records that the article was read, so the front page can show which stories are being read most. It does not record who read it. To avoid counting the same person twice, your browser is given a small cookie holding a list of article numbers you have already opened; it contains no name, no email address and no identifier that points back to you.
If you register as a reader
Registration collects your name, your email address and a password. The name is shown beside anything you post. The email address is used to confirm the address is yours, to let you reset a forgotten password, and for nothing else — we do not send newsletters and we do not give it to anyone.
Your password is stored only as a cryptographic hash. Nobody at the publication can read it, including administrators.
If you comment
The publication records the IP address your comment was sent from, and keeps it. It is not shown publicly and is not visible to other readers. It exists so that abuse, threats and impersonation can be investigated, which is a duty the publication has to the people it writes about. Editors moderating comments see the comment, its author and its history; the address is available to administrators only.
Comments are read by an editor before they appear. Submitting one does not publish it.
If you are on the staff
Staff accounts additionally hold a pen name, course, year level, a short biography, a student number and, if you upload one, a photograph. These appear on the published masthead and beside your byline.
A photograph you upload is re-encoded by the system before it is stored. That process deliberately discards the metadata a camera or phone attaches to an image, including the GPS coordinates where it was taken. We do this because the masthead is a public page and a phone photograph can otherwise disclose where a student lives. You may replace or remove your photograph at any time from your profile page; removing it deletes the file, not merely the link to it.
The system also keeps an editorial record: which articles you wrote or edited, each saved revision, and every review decision with its timestamp and its author. This is what makes the publication accountable for what it prints, and it is the one thing that cannot simply be deleted on request — see below.
Cookies
This site sets a session cookie, a security cookie that protects forms against forgery, and the read-counting cookie described above. There is no advertising, no analytics service, no tracking pixel and no third-party script that follows you between sites.
Typefaces are served from a privacy-preserving mirror that does not set cookies and does not log visitor addresses.
How long information is kept
Account details are kept while the account exists. Comments are kept while they are published. The editorial record — bylines, revisions and review decisions — is kept permanently, because it is the publication's archive of its own work.
Your rights under RA 10173
You may ask to see the information held about you, to correct anything inaccurate, to object to how it is used, and to have it erased. Most of these you can act on yourself from your profile page.
There is one honest limit on erasure. If you have written, edited or reviewed anything published here, deleting your account would destroy the record of who did that work — including other people's. In that case the publication will refuse the deletion and explain why, and will instead close the account so it can no longer sign in, while the byline and the editorial trail remain. A reader who has only commented has no such record, and their account can be deleted outright, taking their comments and reactions with it.
Complaints
If you believe this publication has mishandled your information, raise it with the publication first. You may also complain to the National Privacy Commission, which regulates RA 10173.