Privacy policy

This privacy policy describes the personal data that are 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 are used, shared and protected. It also explains the choices available to you regarding your personal data and how to contact us.

Table of contents

• Who are we?
• Use of the personal data collected
• Comments
• Media
• Contact forms
• Use of cookies
• Statistics and audience measurement
• How long we store your data
• 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 notice.

Use of the personal data collected

We do not automatically or directly collect any data about you.

Notwithstanding, we may collect information, including personal information, from third parties (see the section Cookies).

Comments

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 anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile photo 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 GPS coordinate data. Visitors to your website can download and extract location data from these images.

Contact forms

You may choose to share information with us when you fill in a form. This information will be sent to us by email and will not be kept anywhere other than on our messaging service. It will be used solely in order to reply 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 information is collected 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 practical terms, a cookie allows us, for example, to recognise your browser or your language, or to save 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 once your browser is closed 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 asked to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is purely for your convenience, so that you do not 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 on this site, a temporary cookie will be created to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set a number of cookies to save your login information and your screen display preferences. A login cookie lasts for two days, and a screen options cookie lasts for one year. If you tick “Remember Me”, your login cookie will be kept for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be cleared.

When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after one day.

Third-party cookies

Articles on this site may include embedded content (for example videos, images, articles…). Content embedded 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 a logged-in account on their website.

We may allow certain business partners to install technologies on our website. These partners use these technologies to help us analyse how you use the site, for example by noting the third-party services through which you arrived on the Platform, to market and promote our services on our site and on third-party websites, to help us detect and prevent fraud or carry out risk assessments, or to 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 the information you are viewing in a particular section of our site. If you are not logged in to your account with the third party, they will not be able to know your identity. If you are logged in to your account with the third party, they may link the information or actions relating to your interactions with our site to the account you hold with that third party. Please consult the third party’s privacy policies to find out 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

For analytics we work with Google Analytics in order to obtain information about the use of our website so that we can improve it. It can be disabled from the cookie management panel.

To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for analytics 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 we are not responsible for the availability or accuracy of this mechanism. See this documentation for more information.

How long we store your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This makes it possible to recognise and automatically approve the following comments instead of leaving them in the moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if that is possible), we also store the personal data given in their profile. All users can view, edit or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). The site managers can also view and edit this information.

The rights you have over your data

If you have an account or if you have left comments on the site, you can ask to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you, including the 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 reasons.

Transmission of your personal data

Visitor comments may be checked using an automated service for detecting unwanted comments.
All the personal data we process is processed at the heart of the European Union.

How we protect your data

We put in place and continually update the safety of the site to protect your information against unauthorised access, loss, destruction or alteration. We therefore work to make your data as secure 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, the other contact details are available on our legal notice. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before taking any further steps regarding your request.