Third-party content

Images

The web project at hand uses some graphics originating at other web sites for the use of which a kind permission was given. Among these other sites are:

  • Vexilla Mundi, where the flags used as a background in the country maps are available,
  • www.fg-a.com, where the animated flags (used on the regional pages) are available for non-commercial purposes,
  • Animation VirtualLand, which provided the animated flags of Canada's provinces,
  • and finally NASA, on whose website I discovered a great picture of Earth seen from space, of which a detail is used as the title picture of this blog.

In addition, some blog entries show photos from third parties. The attribution for these photos can be found in the respective blog entries.

Software

Furthermore, this website uses the following third-party software (among others):

  • The blog pages are generated by WordPress.
  • Bilingual support is provided by the qTranslate-XT plugin, a fork of the qTranslate plugin by Qian Qin.
  • The visual representation of the blog pages and the static pages is based on the Twenty Fourteen theme of WordPress.
  • For the display of the enlarged images, a modification of the Lightbox framework by Lokesh Dhakar is used.
  • The representation of my travel routes and the location of a blog post is done based on the map data of OpenStreetMap with the help of the Leaflet library by Volodymyr Agafonkin. In addition,
  • A fork of the “Embed videos and respect privacy” plugin by Michael Zangl ensures that YouTube videos are embedded in compliance with data protection regulations.
  • The Avatar Privacy plugin by Peter Putzer ensures the data protection-compliant integration of Gravatar.
  • The Antispam Bee plugin by Pluginkollektiv protects the comment sections from spam messages.
  • Showing the cookie notice is handled by the Cookie Notice plugin by dFactory.
  • To speed up page loading, the caching plugin WP Super Cache by Automattic is used.

Other

Finally, the privacy notice is based on a template provided by eRecht24.