PRIVACY POLICY

Use of Collected Personal Data

When you leave a comment on our site, the data entered in the comment form, along with 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 known as a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. Gravatar's privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the site, we recommend avoiding images with EXIF GPS data. Visitors to your site can download and extract location data from these images.

Contact Forms

If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so that you do not have to re-enter this information if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.

If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It does not contain personal data and will be deleted automatically when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The login cookie lasts for two days, and the screen option cookie lasts for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login cookie will be stored for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be removed.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include any personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Sites

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 had visited the other site.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and monitor your interactions with the embedded content if you have an account logged in on their website.

Statistics and Audience Measurement

Use and Transmission of Your Personal Data

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data Retention Periods

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve subsequent comments instead of holding them in the moderation queue.

For accounts that register on our site (if applicable), we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All accounts can view, modify, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username). Site administrators can also view and modify this information.

Your Rights Regarding 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 data you have provided. 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 through an automated spam detection service.

Contact Information

Additional Information

We collect information when processing orders on our store.

What We Collect and Store

During your visit to the site, we track:

Products You Have Viewed: For example, to display recently viewed products.
Location, IP Address, and Browser Type: Used to estimate taxes and shipping costs.
Shipping Address: We ask for this to estimate shipping costs before you place an order and to send you your order.

We use cookies to track the contents of your cart while you browse our site.

When you make a purchase on our site, we will ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email, phone number, payment details/card information, and possibly account details such as username and password. This information will be used for:

Sending information about your account and order
Responding to requests, including refunds and complaints
Processing payments and preventing fraud
Setting up your account for our store
Complying with any legal obligations, such as tax calculations
Improving our store’s offerings
Sending marketing messages if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email, and phone number, which will be used to pre-fill the checkout process for future orders.

We generally retain your information as long as necessary for the purposes for which we collected and used it, and we are not legally required to keep it. For example, we retain order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email, and billing and shipping addresses.

We also store comments or reviews if you choose to submit them.

Who on Our Team Has Access to Data

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, administrators and store managers have access to:

Order information such as what was purchased, when, and where it should be sent
Customer information such as your name, email, and billing and shipping information.

Our team has access to this information to process orders, handle refunds, and assist you.

What We Share with Others

We share data with third parties who help us manage our orders and store services; for example —

Payments

We accept payments via PayPal. During payment processing, certain data will be transmitted to PayPal, including the information necessary to complete the payment, such as the total amount or billing information.

Please read PayPal’s privacy policy for more details.

How We Protect Your Data

Procedures Implemented in Case of Data Breach

Third-Party Services That Provide Us with Data

Automated Marketing and/or Profiling Operations Using Personal Data

Display of Information Related to Regulated Sectors