TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Who are we?
- Use of personal data collected
- Comments
- Media
- Contact forms
- Use of cookies
- Statistics and audience measurement
- Data storage periods
- Your rights over your data
- Transmission of your personal data
- How we protect your data
- Contact information
WHO ARE WE?
Find all our information on the legal notice page.
USE OF PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
We do not automatically or directly collect any data about you.
Notwithstanding, we may collect information, including personal information, from third parties (see the Cookies section).
COMMENTS
When you leave a comment on our website, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and your browser’s user agent, are collected to help us detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public next to your comment.
MEDIA
If you are a registered user and you upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images that contain EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.
CONTACT FORMS
You can choose to provide us with information when you fill out a form. This information will be sent to us by email and will not be stored anywhere other than on our messaging service. This information will be used solely to respond to your request. If information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, a notice will indicate this at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information via a form.
USE OF COOKIES
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that is transferred and stored on your device. Specifically, a cookie allows us, for example, to recognize your browser, your language, or to save your preferences.
Two types of cookies are used on our site: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies.” Session cookies expire when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your device after your browser is closed and can be used again during your next visit to our site.
More information at allaboutcookies.org.
Our cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is purely for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in this information again if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be automatically deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up a number of cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. The lifetime of a login cookie is two days, and that of a screen options cookie is one year. If you check “Remember me,” your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
By editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
Third-party cookies
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other site.
These websites could collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and track your interactions with this embedded content if you have a logged-in account on their website.
We may allow certain business partners to install technologies on our site. These partners use these technologies to help us analyze how you use the site, such as by noting the third-party services through which you arrived at the Platform, marketing and promoting our services on our site and on third-party websites, helping us detect and prevent fraud or conduct risk assessments, or collecting information regarding your activities on the website.
Our website may use social plugins provided and operated by third-party companies, such as the Facebook “Like” button. As a result, you may send the third party information that you are viewing in a particular section of our site. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, they will not be able to know your identity. If you are logged into your account with the third party, then they will be able to link the information or actions related to your interactions with our site to the account you hold with that third party. Please consult the third party’s privacy policies to learn more about their data practices.
The list of third-party cookies used on this site is available from the cookie management panel.
STATISTICS AND AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT
Regarding analysis, we work with Google Analytics to obtain information about the use of our website in order to improve it. This can be deactivated from the cookie management panel.
To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytical purposes, you can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by clicking here. Please note that we have no control over this opt-out link and are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of this mechanism. See this documentation for more information.
DATA STORAGE PERIODS
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if possible), we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site managers can also see and edit this information.
YOUR RIGHTS OVER YOUR DATA
If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
TRANSMISSION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
All personal data we process is handled within the European Union.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR DATA
We implement and constantly update the security of the site to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. We therefore work to make your data as invulnerable as possible. As the internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot totally guarantee the security of the transmission or storage of your information.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For any request or question regarding your personal data, contact us at rgpd@geek-tonic.com; other contact information is available in our legal notice. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action regarding your request.