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.

Table of Contents

• Who are we?
• Use of collected personal data
• Comments
• Media
• Contact Forms
• Use of Cookies
• Statistics and Audience Metrics
• Data storage periods
• Your data rights
• Sharing your personal data
• How we protect your data
• Contact Information

Who are we?

Find all our information on the legal notice page.

Use of collected personal data

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 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 email service. This information will be used solely to respond to your request. If 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 your browser is closed 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 set up a number of cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, and that of a screen option 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 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 third-party tracking tools, and monitor 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 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 regarding 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 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 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 Metrics

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, 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. Consult 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 subsequent comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if applicable), we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of their username). Site administrators can also see and edit this information.

Your Rights Regarding Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments on the 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 the erasure of any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Sharing 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 continuously implement and update the site’s security to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. We therefore strive to make your data as invulnerable as possible. As the internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot fully guarantee the security of your information’s transmission or storage.

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 on your request.