Our website respects your privacy and seeks to protect your personal information.
The privacy policy explains how we collect and use your personal data (under certain circumstances). Do not forget the procedures used to ensure the confidentiality of your information. Finally, this policy determines your options regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data. By visiting the site directly or through another website, you agree to the practices described in this policy.
The protection of your data is very important to us. Therefore, your name and other information about you are used in accordance with the terms stated in the privacy policy. We will collect information if necessary or if it is directly related to our relationship with you.
We will keep your data in accordance with the law or use it for the purposes for which it was collected.
You can browse the site without having to provide personal data. Your personal identity remains anonymous throughout your visit to the site and is not exposed unless you have a special online account on the site you are accessing with a username and password.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s 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 can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Security
We use appropriate security techniques and procedures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to your information or loss or destruction. When we collect data via the website, we store your personal information in a database on a secure online server. We use firewall systems on our servers. When we collect payment card information electronically, we protect it by using encryption, such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). It is therefore difficult for any hacker to decrypt your information, because we can not guarantee a 100% protection. We strongly advise against sending all credit or debit card details when communicating with us electronically and without encryption. We put in place direct physical, electronic and procedural guarantees on the process of collection, storage and disclosure of your information. Our security procedures require that we sometimes ask you to verify your identity before disclosing your personal information. It is your responsibility to protect your password and computer against unauthorized use.
