# Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy section describes: - My policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service. - Tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects you. The Service uses Your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy section. ## Collecting and Using Your Personal Data ### Types of Data Collected #### Personal Data While using the Service, you may be asked to provide certain Personal Data that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: - Email address - First name and last name - Phone number - Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City - Usage Data The Service may also give other opportunities for You to provide other Personal Data. By entering optional information, You consent to the Service using it: - **Comments on any social media or blog post:** 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: . After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. - 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. - I reserve the right to use Your comments, feedback, and suggestions to improve My Service or other products and services, and am not required to give You compensation or credits for it. - **Uploaded media:** If you upload images to the Service, You should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Service can download and extract location data from images on the website. - **Login information:** If a user registers on My Service, I also store the Personal Data they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their own Personal Data at any time, though they typically cannot change their username. Website administrators, including Me and possibly my Affiliates, can also see and edit that information. #### Usage Data Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service on any Device, and may include information such as: - Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address) - Your Device's browser type - Your Device's browser version - the pages of My Service that You visit - the time and date of Your visit - the time spent on those pages - the type of Device You use - Your Device's unique identifier (e.g., MAC address) - Your Device's operating system - other diagnostic data I may also collect information Your browser or mobile device sends whenever You visit or access My Service. Relative to most commercial services, My Service collects minimal usage data. #### Information from Third-Party Social Media Services I may allow You to create and log in with an Account to use the Service through the following Third-party Social Media Services: - Google - Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn If You decide to register through or otherwise grant Me access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, I may collect Personal Data already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such as: - Your name - Your email address - Your activities on that social media service - Your contact list associated with that account You may also have the option of sharing additional information with Me through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving Me permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy section. ## Tracking Technologies and Cookies I use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on My Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze My Service. The technologies I use may include: - **Cookies or Browser Cookies.** A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or indicate when a Cookie is sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of My Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting to refuse Cookies, My Service may use Cookies. - **Web Beacons.** Certain sections of My Service and My emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Me to: - Count users who have visited those pages or opened an email - Recording the popularity of a certain section - Verifying system and server integrity - Other related website statistics Cookies have different types: - Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline. - Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. - First-Party Cookies are directly part of My Service functioning correctly. - Third-Party Cookies are placed on your computer by third-parties, Affiliates, and hackers. - Marketing Cookies are provided by a service provider to personalize the marketing experience for users. - Performance and Analytical Cookies measure statistics and performance to verify a Service's functionality. I may use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below: - **Necessary / Essential Cookies** - Type: Session Cookies Administered by Me. - Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with My available Service and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user Accounts. If you have an Account and you log in to the Service, the Service will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts Cookies. Without these Cookies, the services You have asked for cannot be provided, and I only use these Cookies to provide You with those services. This Cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. - **Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies** - Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by Me. - Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website. - **Functionality Cookies** - Type: Persistent Cookies Administered by Me. - Purpose: The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience by allowing Me to remember choices You make when You use the Service, such as: - Remembering Your login details and language preference, which last for two days. If You select "Remember Me" on the login screen, the login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your Account, the login cookies will be removed. - Remembering Your screen options, which last for one year. - Avoid You having to re-enter Your preferences every time You use the Service, which last for one year. - 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 post ID of the article You just edited, and expires after 1 day. Articles on the Service may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if You had visited those Third-Party Sites And Services directly. ## My Use of Your Personal Data I may use Your Personal Data for the following purposes: - **To provide and maintain My Service**: Monitoring the usage of My Service. - **To manage Your Account**: Managing Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service available to You as a registered user. - **For the performance of a contract:** The development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or for any other contract with Me through the Service. - **To contact You:** To contact You by email, newsletter, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications for updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation. - **To provide You with information:** You are able to receive news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events I offer which are similar to those you have already purchased or requested. This does not apply if You have opted to not receive such information. - **To manage Your requests:** To attend and manage Your requests to Me. - **For business transfers:** I may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of My assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Me about My Service users is among the assets transferred. - **For other purposes**: *I* may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of My promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve My Service, products, services, marketing and Your experience. I may share Your Personal Data in the following situations: - **With Service Providers:** I may share Your Personal Data with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of My Service, or with your consent to contact You. - **For business transfers:** I may share or transfer Your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of My assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of My business to another company. - **With Affiliates:** I may share Your information with My Affiliates, in which case we will require those Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy section. Affiliates include My parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies I control or that are under common control with Me. - **With business partners:** I may share Your information with My business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions. - **With other users:** When You share Personal Data or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile. - **With Your consent**: I may disclose Your Personal Data for any other purpose with Your consent. ## Retention of Your Personal Data I will retain Your Personal Data for only as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy section. I will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with: - My legal obligations (for example, if I am required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws) - Resolve disputes - Enforce My legal agreements and policies I will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when: - This data can strengthen My Service's security or improve its functionality - I am legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods. ## Transfer of Your Personal Data Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at My operating offices and in any other locations where Affiliates are involved in processing. Therefore, this information may be transferred to (and maintained on) computers located outside Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction. The data protection laws in that area may differ than those from Your jurisdiction. My Services sometimes use caching to ensure a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page displayed on this site on Your local device. All cache files are temporary, and never accessed by any third party, except as necessary for technical support purposes. They have a natural expiration, but may also be purged beforehand, if necessary. Your consent to this Agreement, followed by Your submission of such information, represents Your agreement to that transfer. I will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure Your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy section. Your Personal Data will not transfer to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place that protect the security of Your data and other Personal Data. If You have an account on the Service, or have volunteered information such as comments, You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data I have about you, including any data you have provided to us. ## Delete Your Personal Data You have the right to delete or request I assist in deleting the Personal Data which I have collected about You. My Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service. You may update, amend, or delete Your Personal Data at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows You to manage Your Personal Data. You may also contact Me to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Data which You have provided to Me. Please note, however, that this does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In specific circumstances, I may need to retain certain information. ## Disclosure of Your Personal Data ### Business Transactions If My Service is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. I will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Agreement. ### Law Enforcement Under certain circumstances, I may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if I am required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). ### Other Legal Requirements I may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: - Comply with a legal obligation - Protect and defend My or Your rights or property - Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service - Protect the personal safety of users of the Service, or the personal safety of the public - Protect against legal liability ## Security of Your Personal Data The security of Your Personal Data is important to Me, but there is never a 100% secure: - method of transmission over the Internet - method of electronic storage I strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, but I cannot guarantee its absolute security. ## Children's Privacy My Service does not address anyone under the age of consent. I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of consent. If You are a parent or guardian, and You are aware that Your child has provided Me with Personal Data, please contact Me. If I become aware I have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, I take steps to remove that information from My servers. If I must rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, I may require Your parent's consent before I collect and use that information.