Privacy policy

Table of contents

• Who are we?
• How we use the personal data we collect
• Comments
• Media
• Contact forms
• Use of cookies
• Statistics and audience measurement
• How long we keep your data
• Your rights over your data
• Sharing your personal data
• How we protect your data
• Contact information

Who are we?

Find all the details on our legal notice page.

How we use the personal data we collect

We do not automatically collect any data about you directly. 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 spam. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment has been 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 advise you to avoid uploading images that contain EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from these images.

Contact forms

You may choose to share information with us when you fill in a form. This information will be sent to us by email and will not be stored anywhere other than on our email service. It will be used only to respond to your request. If any information may be used for commercial purposes, a note at the end of the form will say so. We will always ask for your consent whenever information is collected through 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 recognise your browser and language, or to remember your preferences.
We use two types of cookies on our website: “session cookies” and “persistent cookies”. Session cookies expire when you close your browser, while persistent cookies stay on your device after your browser is closed and can be used again the next time you visit our website.
For more information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Our cookies
If you leave a comment on our website, you will be asked if you would like to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is only for your convenience, so that you don’t have to enter these details again when you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to check whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and is deleted automatically when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up a number of cookies to save your login details and your screen 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 kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data. It simply records 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 or articles). Embedded content from other sites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had gone to that other site.
These websites may 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 analyse how you use the site, for example by noting the third-party services through which you arrived on the Platform. They also help us market and promote our services on our site and on third-party websites, detect and prevent fraud, carry out risk assessments, and collect information about your activity on the website.
Our website may use social plugins provided and operated by third-party companies, such as the Facebook “Like” button. As a result, you may send the third party information about what you are viewing 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 identify you. If you are logged in to your account with the third party, they may link information or actions relating to your interactions with our site to the account you hold with them. Please read the third party’s privacy policy to find out more about its data practices.

The list of third-party cookies used on this site is available in the cookie management panel.

Statistics and audience measurement

For analytics, we use Google Analytics to gather information about how our website is used so that we can improve it. You can turn it off from the cookie management panel.
To stop 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. See this documentation for more information.

How long we keep your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This means we can automatically recognise and approve any follow-up comments, rather than holding them in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (where this is possible), we also store the personal information they provide in their profile. All users can see, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators can also see and edit this information.

Your rights over your data

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have given us. You can also ask us to delete your personal data. This does not include data we are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

Sharing your personal data

Visitor comments may be checked using an automated spam detection service.
All the personal data we process is handled within the European Union.

How we protect your data

We keep the site’s security under constant review and update it regularly to protect your information against unauthorised access, loss, destruction or alteration. We work hard to make your data as secure as possible. However, 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

If you have any request or question about your personal data, please 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 any further action on your request.