PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes the personal data that is collected or generated (processed) when you use the website. It outlines the types of personal data gathered when you use our site, and how your personal data is used, shared, and protected. It also explains your choices regarding your personal data and how to contact us.

Table of Contents

• About Us
• Use of Collected Personal Data
• Comments
• Media
• Contact Forms
• Use of Cookies
• Statistics and Audience Measurement
• How long we retain your data
• What rights you have over your data
• Transmission of Your Personal Data
• How We Protect Your Data
• Contact Information

About Us

Find all our information on the legal notice page.

Use of Collected Personal Data

We do not automatically and directly collect any data about you.

However, 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 browser user agent, are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Media

If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF GPS coordinates. 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 any information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, a note 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 you close your browser and can be used again during your next visit to our site.

More information on allaboutcookies.org.

Our Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is solely for your convenience so that you do not have to re-enter this information if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.

If you have an account and 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 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 cookie will be removed.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains 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…). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited that other site.

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.

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, for example, by noting the third-party services through which you arrived on the Platform, to market and promote our services on our site and on third-party websites, to help us detect and prevent fraud or conduct risk assessments, or to collect information about your activities on the website.

Our website may use social plugins provided and operated by third-party companies, such as Facebook’s “Like” button. As a result, you may send the third party the information you view in a particular section of our site. If you are not logged in to your account with the third party, they will not be able to know your identity. If you are logged in to your account with the third party, then they may 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

For analytics, we work with Google Analytics to obtain information regarding the use of our website to improve it. This can be disabled from the cookie management panel.

To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analysis 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 we are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of this mechanism. See this documentation for more information.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve subsequent comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who 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 or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all 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 using an automated spam detection service.
All personal data we process is processed within the European Union.

How We Protect Your Data

We continuously implement and update site security 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 fully guarantee the security of the transmission or storage of your information.

Contact Information

For any requests or questions regarding your personal data, contact us at rgpd@geek-tonic.com. Other contact information is available on our legal notice. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action regarding your request.