Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes the personal data that is collected or generated (processed) when you use the website. This Privacy Policy outlines what types of personal data are 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.

Nonetheless, 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 the user agent of your browser, are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The privacy policies of the Gravatar service are available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

If you are a registered user and upload images to the website, we advise you not to upload images containing EXIF GPS location data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

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, and this information will be used solely to respond to your request. If any information is likely to be used for commercial purposes, a notice will indicate this at the end of the form. We will always ask for your consent when collecting information via a form.

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small data file that is transferred and stored on your device. In practice, a cookie allows us, for example, to recognize your browser, your language, or to remember 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 your browser is closed and can be reused during your next visit to our site.

More information can be found at allaboutcookies.org.

Our cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered the option to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is solely for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in this information again 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 created to determine if 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 up a number of cookies to store your login information and screen preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, and for a screen option cookie, it is one year. If you check “Remember me,” your login cookie will be retained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

When you modify or publish 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 article you just modified. It expires after one day.

Third-party cookies

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles…). The embedded content from other sites behaves in 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 track your interactions with this embedded content if you have an account logged into their 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 noting the third-party services through which you arrived on the Platform, marketing and promoting our services on our site and third-party websites, helping us detect and prevent fraud, or conducting risk assessments, or collecting information about your activities on the website.

Our website may use social plugins provided and operated by third parties, such as the Facebook “Like” button. Consequently, you may send to the third party the information you view in a particular section of our site. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, they will not know your identity. If you are logged into your account with the third party, they will be able to link the information or actions related to your interactions with our site to the account you have with that third party. Please consult the privacy policies of the third party for more about their data practices.

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

For analysis, we work with Google Analytics to obtain information regarding the use of our website to improve it. This can be disabled 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 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. Refer to 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 leaving them in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our site (if this is 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.

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 those 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 reasons.

Comments from visitors may be checked using an automated unwanted comment detection service.
All personal data we process is handled within the European Union.

We continuously implement and update the site’s security to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. We work to make your data as invulnerable as possible. Since 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 notices. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further actions 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 measurement

Data retention periods

Your rights regarding your data

Transmission of your personal data

How we protect your data

Contact information