Privacy policy
This privacy policy describes the personal data collected or generated (processed) when you use the website. It explains the types of personal data collected, how your data is used, shared and protected, the choices available to you and how to contact us.
Contents
- Who are we?
- Use of collected personal data
- Comments
- Media
- Contact forms
- Use of cookies
- Statistics and audience measurement
- How long we retain your data
- Your rights over your data
- Transfer of your personal data
- How we protect your data
- Contact information
Who are we?
Find our details on the legal notice page.
Use of collected personal data
We do not automatically and 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, your IP address and your browser’s user agent are collected to help detect unwanted comments.
An anonymised string created from your email address, also known as a hash, may be sent to Gravatar to check whether you use that service. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture is publicly visible alongside your comment.
Media
If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we recommend avoiding 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 provide information when completing a form. This information is sent to us by email and is not stored anywhere other than our email service. It is used solely to respond to your request. If information may be used for commercial purposes, this will be stated at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information through a form.
Use of cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file transferred to and stored on your device. For example, it allows us to recognise your browser or language or retain your preferences.
We use two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device after the browser is closed and may be used again on your next visit.
More information is available at allaboutcookies.org.
Our cookies
If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience, so you do not have to enter them again when posting another comment. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and log in, a temporary cookie is created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, cookies are set to save your login information and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days and screen preference cookies last one year. If you select “Remember me”, your login cookie is retained for two weeks. Logging out deletes the login cookie.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. It contains no personal data and simply identifies the article you have just edited. It expires after one day.
Third-party cookies
Articles may include embedded content, such as videos, images or articles. Content embedded from another website behaves as if the visitor had visited that website.
Those websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools and track your interactions with embedded content if you are logged into an account on their website.
We may allow certain business partners to install technologies on our website. They use these technologies to help analyse how you use the site, for example by identifying third-party services through which you reached the platform; to market and promote our services on our site and third-party websites; to help detect and prevent fraud or assess risks; 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 information about what you view in a particular section of our site. If you are not logged into your account with that third party, it cannot identify you. If you are logged in, it can link information or actions relating to your interactions with our site to your account. Please consult the third party’s privacy policy for details of its data practices.
The list of third-party cookies used on this website is available in the cookie settings panel.
Statistics and audience measurement
We use Google Analytics to obtain information about how the website is used and improve it. It can be disabled in the cookie settings panel.
You can also prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analysis by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here. We do not control this opt-out link and are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of the mechanism. See this documentation for more information.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows subsequent comments to be recognised and approved automatically instead of being held for moderation.
For users who register on our website, where registration is possible, we also store the personal information provided in their profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time, except their username. Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
Your rights over your data
If you have an account or have left comments, you can request a file containing all personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided. You can also request deletion of your personal data. This does not include data retained for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Transfer of your personal data
Visitor comments may be checked by 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 website 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 completely secure environment, we cannot fully guarantee the security, transmission or storage of your information.
Contact information
For requests or questions about your personal data, contact rgpd@tuvedlacom.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.