Intro

The following text summarises the ways in which data is being collected and how it used. This policy may be subject to change and you should visit this page frequently to stay informed. By using this website you agree to the following privacy policy.

Summary: This website will never capture any personally identifiable data unless you provide us with such directly or indirectly. We will take precautions that are within in our means to protect information collected via this website and not resell it or use it for any other not intended purposes. Some pages on this site may use first and third party cookies to improve the user experience.

What are cookies?

This website uses first and third party cookies to improve user experience and may be used for analytics which may help improve the site and ad purposes, including remarketing and social sharing. Almost all websites to this and is a common practice.

A cookie is a small text file that is sent by a website or server to your device’s browser when you visit this site. Cookies can remember actions, preferences (such language, font size and other display preferences) and how often users interact with a website over a period of time, called sessions. This information can be stored on servers of third parties like Google, Amazon and other companies that provide major internet services.

The cookies collected on this website are not able to identify you personally and will not give access to your personal data!

How can I opt out?

You can delete all your cookies. You are also able to opt out of cookies entirely for the future. However, the user experiences across websites on the internet can become limited and core functionalities can become disabled or stop working.

Manage Cookies in various browsers:

Microsoft Edge:

  1. Open Microsoft Edge.
  2. Click on More options (… symbol) on the top right corner of the browser.
  3. Select Settings from the drop-down menu.
  4. Click on Choose what to clear under Clear browsing data.
  5. Check the Cookies and saved website data (and any other data you want to clear) and click on Clear button.
  6. Disable Cookies: Go to Advanced Settings under Settings and select Block all Cookies from the drop-down list.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox: Delete Cookies / Disable Cookies
Apple Safari 8

You can opt out of third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. It is encouraged to use this site frequently to see how many advertiser have cookie information on your surfing behaviour. If you like you can also opt-out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Click the following link to opt out of Google’s DoubleClick network.

You can use this browser plugin to avoid Google Analytics collecting data on your browsing behaviour.

You can manage ad cookies via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.(français) (deutsch)

You can find a description on how to deny all cookies here.

AdBlockers might also be an option. Popular ones are:

How is data collected?

  • Cookies
  • Opt-in Forms
  • Contact Forms
  • Use of Social Networks

This site doesn’t collect any personal data of the website user other than the IP address by just browsing pages.

Where is the data collected stored?

  • Google Analytics, Google, California, USA
  • Server

GDPR Privacy Policy

Social Login

 

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

Facebook Comments

 

We embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

GooglePlus Comments

 

We use GooglePlus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using your GooglePlus account. From this interaction Google automatically collects and store certain information in server logs like IP address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Disqus Comments

 

We use Disqus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using Disqus commenting system. Disqus may collect information about you when you register for and use the Service. Such information may include “Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that identifies you as an individual, such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, telephone number, username or account ID, and “Non-Personally Identifiable Information” which means information that does not identify you as an individual. Non-Personally Identifiable Information may include, but is not limited to, information about your browser, your IP address, device ID, what pages you visit on our Partner Sites, which website you came from, what advertisements you clicked on, whether on our Partner Websites, the Service or other third party websites, and other information about your online activity that does not identify you as an individual, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://help.disqus.com/terms-and-policies/disqus-privacy-policy

Facebook Comments Moderation

 

We collect the data related to the Facebook Comment you post, only from your consent that you grant before posting Facebook Comment at our website. This data includes your Facebook account name, unique Facebook account identifier, unique identifier associated to the posted Facebook comment, unique open graph object identifier of the webpage at which you posted the comment, unique identifier associated to the parent comment if you reply to an existing comment. This data is used to show recent Facebook Comments made all over our website and/or to show the old comments made at non-SSL webpages before we moved our website to SSL. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.

Facebook Comments Notifier

 

We send the Facebook Comment you post, to page/post author and/or website administrator via automated email, only from your consent that you grant before posting Facebook Comment at our website. This data includes just the Facebook comment posted by you.

Social Analytics for Sharing

 

We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Facebook Share official buttons

 

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

Twitter Tweet official button

 

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

GooglePlus, GooglePlus Share official buttons

 

We use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Linkedin Share official button

 

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Pinterest Save official button

 

We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

Buffer official button

 

We use Buffer widget at our website to allow you to add our webpages to your Buffer account, which collects log data from your browser. This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type or the domain at which you are interacting with the widget, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://buffer.com/privacy

Xing Share official button

 

We use Xing Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Xing and this let Xing collate data about you automatically by means of tracking, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy

Reddit Badge official button

 

We use Reddit Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy

StumbleUpon Badge official button

We use StumbleUpon Badge widget at our website which may log information when you interact with the widget. Log Data is a form of Non-Identifying Information, in accordance with their privacy policy: http://www.stumbleupon.com/privacy

Data Protection

This site takes data protection very seriously. Data will not be sold or given away, except for the purposes stated above, without consent. Personally identifiable information will never be passed on to third parties, except if requested by law enforcement.

Reasonable measures were put in place to protect private information that can be expected from a private website. However, it is not possible to guarantee that private data will not be leaked despite exercising a strict data protection policy. Failure of third parties, human error and equipment failure are some of the reasons why this is not possible.