Information Collection
Contact forms
Information provided via a contact form is for our use only. We do not sell or provide your information to 3rd parties. Your privacy is important to us. Email addresses and personal information collected through email, forms, or RSS subscription will never be shared.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Our website security uses cookies, beacons, tags, and other tracking technologies to gather demographic information about you, identify your visits to our Website, and other interactions with our Website. We gather information such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, internet service provider (ISP), operating system, browser type, date/time stamp, and store it in log files. To collect this information, a cookie, a standard feature of a website that allows us to store a small amount of data on your computer to allow our web servers to recognize you, may be set on your computer or device when you visit our Website. We may track your use across different websites and services. In some countries, including those in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the information in this paragraph may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws.
You can control how websites use cookies by changing your cookie settings (www.aboutcookies.org), but your modification may limit your use and functionality of some of the features on our Website. We may also use cookies and other tracking technologies to provide you advertising based on your browsing activities. You may opt out of targeted advertisements by visiting http://optout.networkadvertising.org, or if located in the EEA, you may opt out by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
Analytics
Anonymous information will be passively collected without your providing information through technologies such as cookies, log files, server data, etc. Data such as what browser you are using, what city you are from, what pages you are viewing, etc. are collected through an analytics programs. This is for the purpose of providing a better user experience and improving the site.
Use and Disclosure of Information
The statistical information gathered is used to improve the site based on what you, the reader, are more interested in. No unauthorized user registration is used on this site, so no personal information is collected on visitors by this site without a user’s consent. No internet transmission is completely secure, but steps to protect your personal information are taken.
Third party advertising
Re-targeting ads: These companies may use anonymous information about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to display an advertisement that may be of interest to you. Third party advertising links may collect information from visitors and place or recognize cookies on your browser when you visit them. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. You can set your browser to notify you if a cookie is sent.
Embedded content from other websites
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
This site contains links or references to other Web sites to which this Privacy Policy does not apply. We encourage you to read the Privacy Policy of any sites you visit.
How long we retain your data
If comments are allowed, and 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.
What rights you have over your data
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
Where we send your data
If comments are enabled, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your acceptance of these terms
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.