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.
Table of 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
- What rights you have over your data
- Where your personal data is sent
- How we protect your data
- Contact information
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 concerning 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 browser user agent, are collected to help us detect spam.
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.
Media
If you are a registered user and 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.
Contact forms
You can 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 for the purpose of responding to your request. If information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, a mention will indicate this at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information via a form.
Use of cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that is transferred and stored on your device. Concretely, 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 once 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 may be offered to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is 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 you log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It 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 one 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 ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Third-party cookies
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.
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, such as by noting the third-party services through which you arrived at 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 regarding your activities on the website.
Our website may use social plugins provided and operated by third-party companies, such as the Facebook “Like” button. Consequently, you may send to the third party the information that you are viewing in a specific section of our site. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, the latter will not be able to know your identity. If you are logged into your account with the third party, then the latter will be able to link the information or actions relating to your interactions with our site to the account you hold with the third party in question. 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
Regarding analytics, we work with Google Analytics to obtain information concerning the use of our website in order to improve it. This can be deactivated from the cookie management panel.
To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analysis 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. Consult 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 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 your personal data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through 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 security of the site to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. We therefore work to make your data as invulnerable as possible. Since the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot completely guarantee the security of the transmission or storage of your information.
Contact information
For any request or question concerning your personal data, contact us at rgpd@tuvedlacom.com; other contact information is available on our legal notice. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action regarding your request.