Privacy Policy

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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 your browser’s 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 whether you use it. The Gravatar service 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 you upload images to the website, we recommend avoiding uploading images that contain GPS coordinates in their EXIF data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

Contact forms

You can choose to share information with us when you fill out a form. This information will be sent to us by email and will not be stored anywhere other than in our email service. It will be used solely to respond to your request. If any 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 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 practice, 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 may 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 the option to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is only for your convenience so you don’t 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 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 your screen preferences. A login cookie lasts two days, and a screen options cookie lasts 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.

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 have just edited. It expires after one day.

Third-party cookies

Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were visiting that other website.

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 and are logged in to 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 identifying the third-party services through which you arrived on the Platform, market and promote our services on our site and on third-party websites, help us detect and prevent fraud or carry out risk assessments, or collect information about 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 the information 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 may link 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 measurement

For analytics, we work with Google Analytics to obtain information about how our website is used, in order to improve it. It can be disabled from the cookie management panel.

To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics purposes, 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 makes it possible to recognize and automatically approve subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if possible), we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Site administrators can also view 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 a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not include data stored for administrative purposes, legal requirements, or security reasons.

Sharing your personal data

Visitor comments may 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 implement and continuously update the site’s security to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. We therefore 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 regarding 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 regarding your request.