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 page legal notices.
Use of personal data collected
We do not automatically and directly collect any data about you.
However, we may collect information, including personal information, from third parties (see Cookies).
Comments
When you leave a comment on our website, not only the data entered in the comment form, but also your IP address and browser user agent are collected to help us detect unwanted comments.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using the service. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After 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 containing EXIF data of GPS coordinates. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.
Contact forms
You can choose to provide us with information when you fill in a form, this information will be sent to us by e-mail and will not be stored anywhere other than on our e-mail service, and 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 practice, a cookie allows us, for example, to recognise 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, whereas 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
Si vous déposez un commentaire sur notre site, il vous sera proposé d’enregistrer votre nom, adresse de messagerie et site web dans des cookies. C’est uniquement pour votre confort afin de ne pas avoir à saisir ces informations si vous déposez un autre commentaire plus tard. Ces cookies expirent au bout d’un an.
Si vous avez un compte et que vous vous connectez sur ce site, un cookie temporaire sera créé afin de déterminer si votre navigateur accepte les cookies. Il ne contient pas de données personnelles et sera supprimé automatiquement à la fermeture de votre navigateur.
Lorsque vous vous connecterez, nous mettrons en place un certain nombre de cookies pour enregistrer vos informations de connexion et vos préférences d’écran. La durée de vie d’un cookie de connexion est de deux jours, celle d’un cookie d’option d’écran est d’un an. Si vous cochez « Se souvenir de moi », votre cookie de connexion sera conservé pendant deux semaines. Si vous vous déconnectez de votre compte, le cookie de connexion sera effacé.
En modifiant ou en publiant un article, un cookie supplémentaire sera enregistré dans votre navigateur. Ce cookie ne comprend aucune donnée personnelle. Il indique simplement l’identifiant de l’article que vous venez de modifier. Il expire au bout d’un jour.
Third party cookies
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles…). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the same way as if the visitor was visiting that other site.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and track your interactions with embedded content if you have an account with 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, 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 area of our website. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, the third party will not know who you are. 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 refer to the third party’s privacy policy to learn more about their data practices.
The list of third party cookies used on this site is available at cookie management panel.
Statistics and audience measurement
In terms of analysis, we use 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 deactivation link and are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of this mechanism. Visit this documentation for more information.
How long your data is stored
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognise and approve subsequent comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.
For users who register on our site (where possible), we also store the personal data specified in their profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of 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 can 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 include data stored for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Transmission of your personal data
Visitors’ comments can be checked with an automated spam detection service
All the personal data we process is processed in the European Union.
How we protect your data
We implement and continuously update the security of the site to protect your information from unauthorised 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.
Contact information
For any request or question concerning your personal data, contact us at rgpd@geek-tonic.com, Further contact information is available on our legal notices. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking further action on your application.