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 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) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you are a registered user and you upload images to the website, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

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 in our email 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 be indicated at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information through a form.

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to and stored on your device. Specifically, a cookie allows us, for example, 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 on 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 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 you 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 a number of cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. The lifetime of a login cookie is two days, and that of a screen options cookie is 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.

When 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 one day.

Third-party cookies

The articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, images, articles…). Embedded content 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 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 authorize 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 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 Facebook’s “Like” button. As a result, you may send information you are viewing in a particular section of our site to the third party. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, the third party will not be able to know your identity. If you are logged into your account with the third party, then the third party may be able to link 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 purposes, we work with Google Analytics to obtain information about 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 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 recognize and automatically approve subsequent comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if possible), we also store the personal data indicated in their profile. All users can see, modify, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Website managers can also see and modify this information.

If you have an account or have left comments on the site, you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided to us. You can also request the deletion of personal data concerning you. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

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

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. As the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot fully guarantee the security of the transmission or storage of your information.

For any requests or questions regarding your personal data, contact us at rgpd@geek-tonic.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.

Privacy Policy

Table of Contents

Who are we?

Use of Collected Personal Data

Comments

Media

Contact Forms

Use of cookies

Statistics and Audience Measurements

How long we retain your data

What rights you have over your data

Where we send your data

How We Protect Your Data

Contact Information