Title: Privacy issues
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Privacy issues

 *  [ArnoAnou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnoanou/)
 * (@arnoanou)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/privacy-issues/)
 * So my theme recommended this plugin and I installed it today and chose an Avatar
   for every author we have. I was suprised when for one user WP User Avatar already
   had chosen a picture that was not even in our media library. So: How does that
   work?
 * My guess: This user works on other blogs, and they probably use this plugin there.
   So when WP User Avatar checked his e-mail-address they found this other blog 
   and the related pic? So WP User Avatar stores e-mail-adresses and data on which
   sites with the plugin the e-mail-adresses are used?
 * What happens with that data? I think we should know.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-avatar/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-user-avatar/)

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 *  [Flipper Code – WordPress Development Company](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flippercode/)
 * (@flippercode)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/privacy-issues/#post-6297184)
 * Hello,
 * No, WP USER AVATAR don’t save any data on remote or don’t look up at another 
   blog based on email address. Might be they’re using gravatar for this. This plugin
   supports gravatar [https://en.gravatar.com/](https://en.gravatar.com/)
 * Thanks

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Flipper Code – WordPress Development Company](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flippercode/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/privacy-issues/#post-6297184)
 * Status: not resolved