This is the Privacy Policy as defined in our Terms Of Use (“TOU“). Some of the words and phrases used in this Privacy Policy are defined in the TOU. This Privacy Policy was modified on Monday, March 30, 2020.
Information We Collect
Collection
We may collect personal and identifying information from you and other users who voluntarily indicate that they would like to receive additional information from us. No personal information is automatically collected from visitors to our Website with our knowledge. We will not knowingly sell, rent, or trade any personal information you submit to us except as described herein.
We may collect non-personal information from you and track certain Website operating information, like the browser you are using or the identity of your Internet service provider.
You allow us to retain any information we collect from you indefinitely.
Your submissions
We may from time to time collect certain information about visitors to our Website through direct questions, such as a survey or a contact form on our Website. If you submit such information to us, you represent that it was done so voluntarily and with full knowledge and acceptance of the TOU.
If you send any information to via e-mail, said communication is not a secure form of communication and can be intercepted. We cannot guarantee that unauthorized third-parties will never be able to defeat any security measures that are in place or use your personal information for improper purposes.
Comments
When you leave comments on this Website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website may download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
We may store some information on your computer via a (“Cookie“). We may use a Cookie, in addition to other things, to help us adjust the Website to your preferences and interests. Your computer may offer ways to erase or block Cookies, so refer to your computer’s instructions for additional information on the availability of those features, if you are interested.
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.
Third Parties
Links
The display of URLs or hypertext links anywhere on this Website or any other form of re-direction of your connection to, with, or through this Website (“Link“) is not an endorsement, nor do we have any obligation, responsibility or liability resulting from any Links. We do not verify or have any responsibility for any other parties or websites (including their privacy policies) or for any of their goods or services even if we separately have a marketing, advertising, or other promotional arrangement with them. If a third party obtains information from or about you, we have no responsibility or liability for their conduct or activities.
Our Website may provide Links to websites which are not under our control and are not covered by the TOU. If you use the Links, you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) websites.
Embedded content
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.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
How we use your data
We, and our affiliates and related companies, can use information we collect from you generally to enhance and refine our operations, product development, and for internal and operating purposes. Our third party agents, subsidiaries, affiliates and related companies sometimes will have access to information collected on our Website to fulfill business objectives and for other commercial purposes. We also have the right to use aggregated, data collected about you and other users as a group for our business purposes.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can contact us to request the receipt of an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. Some of that data may be accessible by way of this Website or delivered to you through this Website. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, but we will not erase any data we are obliged to keep for our administrative, legal, or security purposes.