Privacy

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

Table of Contents

• Who we are
• Use of personal data collected
• Comments
• Media
• Contact forms
• Use of cookies
• Statistics and audience measurement
• How long we store your data
• The rights you have over your data
• Transfer of your personal data
• How we protect your data
• Contact information

Who we are

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.
However, we may collect information, including personal information, from third parties (see the Cookies section).

Comments

When you leave a comment on our site, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser 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 check whether you use it. Gravatar’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 site, we recommend avoiding uploading images with embedded GPS location data (EXIF). Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from images on the site.

Contact forms

You may choose to share information with us by filling out a form; this information will be sent to us by email and will not be stored anywhere other than our email service. This information will be used solely to respond to your request. If any information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, this will be indicated at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information through a form.

Use of cookies

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to and stored on your device. In practice, a cookie allows us, for example, to recognise your browser, your language, or to remember 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 on your next visit to our site.

More information at allaboutcookies.org.

Our cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is purely for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is discarded automatically 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 one day.

Third-party cookies

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 had 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.

We may allow certain business partners to install technologies on our site. These partners use these technologies to help us analyse how you use the site, such as by noting which third-party services brought you to 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 information that you view in a particular section of our site. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, the third party will not be able to identify you. If you are logged into your account with the third party, the third party may be able to link the information or actions relating to your interactions with our site to the account you hold with that third party. Please check the third party’s privacy policy for more information on 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 gather information about how our website is used so we can improve it. This can be disabled from the cookie management panel.

To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics 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 its availability or accuracy. See this documentation for more information.

How long we store your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if applicable), we also store the personal data shown in their profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators can also see and edit that information.

The rights you have over your data

If you have an account or have left comments on this site, 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.

Transfer of your personal data

Visitor comments may be checked through 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 the security of the site to protect your information against unauthorised access, loss, destruction, or alteration. We therefore work to make your data as secure as possible. However, since 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 request or question regarding your personal data, please contact us at rgpd@geek-tonic.com. Other contact information is available on our legal notice page. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking any further action on your request.