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 regarding your personal data and how to contact us.
Contents
- Who we are
- Use of the personal data collected
- Comments
- Media
- Contact forms
- Use of cookies
- Statistics and audience measurement
- How long your data is stored
- The rights you have over your data
- Transmission of your personal data
- How we protect your data
- Contact information
Who we are
You will find all our details on the legal notice page.
Use of the personal data collected
We do not automatically and directly collect any data about you.
Nevertheless, 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 anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy terms are available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile photo 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 containing EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from these images.
Contact forms
You may choose to send us information when you fill in a form. It will be sent to us by email and will not be stored anywhere other than on our email service. This information will be used only to reply to your request. If information may be used for commercial purposes, a note will say so at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when information is collected 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 practical terms, a cookie allows us, for example, to recognise your browser and 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 you close your browser and can be used again on your next visit to 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 purely for your convenience, so that you do not have to enter 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 whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no 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 information and your screen preferences. A login cookie lasts for two days, and a screen-options cookie lasts for one year. If you tick “Remember me”, your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
If 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 have just edited. It expires after one day.
Third-party cookies
Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, images, articles…). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had gone to that other site.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and 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 technologies on our site. These partners use these technologies to help us analyse 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 carry out risk assessments, or to collect information about your activity 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 are viewing in a particular section of our site. If you are not logged in to your account with that third party, they will not be able to know your identity. If you are logged in to your account with that third party, they may link information or actions relating to your interactions with our site to the account you hold with them. Please see 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 about how our website is used, so that we can improve it. It can be disabled from the cookie management panel.
To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analysis, 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 your data is stored
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This allows us to recognise and automatically approve subsequent comments instead of holding them in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (if this is possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can see, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Site administrators can also see and edit this information.
The rights you have over your data
If you have an account or if you have left comments on the site, you can request 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 include data stored for administrative, legal or security reasons.
Transmission of your personal data
Visitors’ comments may be checked using an automated spam-detection service.
All the personal data we process is processed within the European Union.
How we protect your data
We put in place and continually update the site’s security to protect your information against unauthorised access, loss, destruction or alteration. We work to make your data as secure 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 request or question about your personal data, contact us at rgpd@geek-tonic.com. Other contact details are available in our legal notice. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action on your request.