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.

Find all our information on the legal notice page.

We do not automatically and directly collect any data about you.

Nevertheless, we may collect information, including personal information, from third parties (see the Cookies section).

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.

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.

You may 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 messaging service. This information will be used solely to respond to your request. If information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, a notice will indicate this at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information via a form.

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 several cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. A login cookie lasts for two days, and a screen options cookie lasts for one year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login cookie will be retained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be removed.

If you edit or publish 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 might collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and monitor 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 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 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 to 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 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.

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 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 are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of this mechanism. Consult this documentation for more information.

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 indicated 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 view and edit this information.

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 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.
All personal data we process is processed within the European Union.

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 transmitting or storing your information.

For any request or question regarding your personal data, contact us at rgpd@geek-tonic.com. Other contact information is available on our legal notice page. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action regarding your request.