PRIVACY POLICY
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 you have in relation to your personal data and how to contact us.
Table of Contents
- Who are we?
- Use of Personal Data Collected
- Feedback
- Media
- Contact Forms
- Use of cookies
- Statistics and audience measurement
- How long we store your data
- The rights you have over your data
- Disclosure of your personal data
- How we protect your data
- Contact Information
Who are we?
Discover all our information on the legal notice page.
Use of Personal Data Collected
We automatically and directly collect no data about you.
Notwithstanding, we may collect information, including personal information, from third parties (see Cookies section).
Feedback
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 comments.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using the Gravatar service. The confidentiality clauses of the Gravatar service are available https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is validated, 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 data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.
Contact Forms
You may choose to provide us with information when you fill out a form, which will be sent to us by email and will not be stored anywhere other than on our email service, this information will be used for the sole purpose of responding to your request. If 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 via 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 concrete terms, a cookie allows us, for example, to recognise your browser, your language or to store 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 once your browser is closed and can be used again the next time you visit our site.
More information on allaboutcookies.org.
Our cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be asked to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is only for your convenience so that you don’t have to enter this information if you file 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 set to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to save your login details and screen preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you tick “Remember me”, your login cookie will be stored for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not include any personal data. It simply shows the ID of the item 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.). Content embedded from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting that other site.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, track your interactions with this embedded content if you have an account logged in on their website.
We may allow certain business partners to install technology 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, to market and promote our services on our site and on third-party websites, to help us detect and prevent fraud, or to conduct risk assessments. or collect information about 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 information you view in a particular section of our site to the third party. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, the third party will not be able to know your identity. If you are logged into your account with the third party, then the third party will be able to link the information or actions relating to your interactions with our site to the account you have with the third party. Please review the third party’s privacy policies to learn more about its data practices.
The list of third-party cookies used on this website is available from the cookie management panel.
Statistics and audience measurement
In terms of analytics, we work with Google Analytics to obtain information about the use of our website in order to improve it. The latter 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 the availability or accuracy of this mechanism. 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 allows subsequent comments to be automatically recognized and approved instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site managers can also view and edit this information.
The 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 the personal data we hold about you, including the data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of personal data concerning you. This does not take into account data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Disclosure of your personal data
Visitor comments can 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 implement and continuously update the security of the site to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, destruction or alteration. That’s why we’re working to make your data as invulnerable as possible. Because the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot fully guarantee the security, transmission or storage of your information.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or questions about your personal data, please contact us on rgpd@geek-tonic.com, other contact information can be found in our legal notice. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking any further action regarding your request.