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 personal data collected
- Comments
- Media
- Contact forms
- Use of cookies
- Statistics and audience measurement
- How long your data is stored
- The rights you have over your data
- Transmission of your personal data
- How we protect your data
- Contact information
Who are we?
Discover all our information on the legal page.
Use of personal data collected
We do not automatically and directly collect any data about you.
Notwithstanding this, 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, but also 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) can be sent to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using the service. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After validation of your comment, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.
Media
If you are a registered user and are uploading images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images that contain EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.
Contact forms
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 email service, this information will be used for the sole purpose of responding to your request. If information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, this will be indicated 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 to and stored on your device. In concrete terms, a cookie allows us to recognize your browser, your language or to store 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 you close your browser and can be used again the next time you visit our site.
More information on allaboutcookies.org.
Our cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you will be asked to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is only for your convenience so that you don’t have to 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 set to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain any personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to store your login information and screen preferences. The lifetime of a connection cookie is two days, that of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check “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 stored in your browser. This cookie does not include any personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the item you just modified. It expires after one day.
Third party cookies
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles…). Content embedded from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor were on that other site.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and track your interactions with these embedded contents if you have an account with them.
We may allow certain business partners to install technology 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 on the Platform, market and promote our services on our site and on third-party websites, help us detect and prevent fraud or conduct 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 the Facebook “Like” button. As a result, you may send the third party information that you view in a particular section of our site. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, the third party will not know your identity. If you are logged into your account with the third party, then the third party may link information or actions relating to your interactions with our site to your account with the third party. Please review 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
We use Google Analytics to obtain information about the use of our website in order to improve it. The latter can be deactivated from the cookie management panel.
To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analysis, you can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on 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 your data is stored
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept indefinitely. This will automatically recognize and 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 indicated in their profile. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site managers can also view and modify this information.
The rights you have over your data
If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you may request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including that which you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. This does not take into account data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Transmission of your personal data
Visitor comments can be checked with an automated comment detection service
All the personal data we process are processed in the heart of the European Union.
How we protect your data
We implement and continuously update site security to protect your information from unauthorized access, loss, destruction or alteration. We are therefore working to make your data as invulnerable 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 concerning your personal data, contact us on 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 on your application.
