Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 1st, 2024

Introduction

Your privacy is a priority for us. This policy outlines our dedication to safeguarding your personal information.

This document, referred to as the “Privacy Policy,” details our methods of data collection when you visit the website linked here (“the Site”). This Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms of Service, which can be found at the Terms of Use link, and is applicable to users who interact with the Site. This Privacy Policy forms part of the Disclaimer about affiliate links, which can be found at the Disclaimer link, and is applicable to users who interact with the Site. If you are not the primary user of the Site, it’s your responsibility to communicate this Privacy Policy to your users and obtain their agreement.

Your Agreement

We urge you to read this document thoroughly to comprehend our approach towards handling your data. If our privacy practices do not align with your views, we advise against using our Site. YOUR USE OF THIS SITE SIGNIFIES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE PRIVACY TERMS.

This policy is subject to modifications over time (refer to the section on Privacy Policy changes below). Continued use of the Site after changes implies your acceptance of the new terms, so we recommend reviewing this policy regularly.

Children’s Privacy

We do not design our Site for children under 13 years. Children below 13 are prohibited from providing personal data on our Site. We do not deliberately gather information from children under 13. If we discover such data collection, we will promptly erase the information. If you suspect we have data from a child under 13, please contact us at our provided email.

Information We Collect

Types, Collection, and Usage of Data:

To enhance your experience and continuously improve our Site, we may use certain user information, including cookies and local storage. Below is a detailed explanation of the types of data we collect and use.

Non-Personal Data:

This refers to data that does not identify you on its own. This includes information gathered from your device when you use the Site (as defined in the Terms). We always ensure that this data is anonymized and aggregated.

While using the Site, we collect non-personal data about your visits, including your operating system, browser type, traffic and location data, logs, and other communication data, along with the resources you use on the Site.

We also gather your device’s IP address provided by your Internet service provider, used primarily for location and language identification. In some regions, IP addresses might be seen as personal data when combined with other data. However, we do not engage in such practices or attempt to personally identify users. IP addresses are encoded to maintain anonymity.

Personal Data:

Definition: This is data that can identify you individually or in combination with other information.

Collection: We do not purposefully gather or store personal data that can identify you, unless you provide it directly to us.

Data You Provide:

The data we collect through our Site may include:

  • Information you submit via forms on our Site. This might be during registration, subscribing to our services, posting comments or content, or requesting additional services.
  • Details of your communications with us, including email addresses.
  • User Contributions, which you may post on public areas of the Site or send to third parties. These are shared at your risk.

Statistical Data:

The data we collect automatically is statistical and does not include personal information. We use technologies such as cookies and local storage for this purpose.

Cookies and Local Storage:

We use local storage and cookies to enhance your experience.

  • Browser Cookies: Small files stored on your computer’s hard drive. You can refuse cookies through your browser settings, but this may limit your access to certain Site features.
  • Flash Cookies: Used for collecting and storing information about your preferences and navigation.
  • Web Beacons: Small electronic files on our Site and emails for collecting statistics and verifying system integrity.

You can configure your browser to reject cookies or alert you when they are being sent. However, some parts of the Site may not function optimally without cookies.

Third-Party Tracking:

Our Site may include third-party content and applications, such as ads, from different sources. These parties may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect data about your online activities. We do not control these tracking methods or their use. For concerns about targeted content, contact the respective provider directly. For managing your privacy and ad preferences with third-party providers, refer to their respective privacy policies and opt-out options.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded 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 1 day.

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 has 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.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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

For users that 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.

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

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

When visitors or users submit a poll, we capture the IP Address for spam protection and to set voter limitations.

When visitors or users votes on a poll we retain the IP Address data for 30 days and anonymize it.

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.

If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

On our pages, plugins of the SoundCloud social network (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, UK) may be integrated. The SoundCloud plugins can be recognized by the SoundCloud logo on our site.

When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server is established via the plugin. This enables SoundCloud to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the “Like” or “Share” buttons while you are logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link the content of our pages to your SoundCloud profile. This means that SoundCloud can associate visits to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by SoundCloud. For more information on SoundCloud’s privacy policy, please go to https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our site with your SoundCloud account, please log out of your SoundCloud account.

How We Use and Disclose Your Information:

We use your information for various purposes, including:

  • Contacting you with promotional materials or notifications related to our Site, which you can opt-out of at any time.
  • Providing and monetizing our Site.
  • Offering customer support and responding to inquiries.
  • Delivering content or advertising.
  • Conducting market research, analyzing website usage, and traffic.

We may share aggregated, non-identifiable data about Site usage, not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Data Storage Location:

We store your data on secure servers in the United States and other countries, including AWS (Amazon) servers.

Withdrawing Consent:

If you wish to withdraw your consent for data processing, contact us at [email protected] or use the provided link.

Unsubscribing:

To unsubscribe from our newsletter, use the link provided link at the bottom of your received emails.

Policy Changes:

We will post any changes to our privacy policy on this page. The last modification date is displayed at the top of the page.

Contact Us:

For questions or comments about our privacy practices, contact us at [email protected]. For non-legal inquiries, use the Contact form.